Characterization of the Occult Hepatitis B Virus Variants Circulating among the Blood Donors from Eastern India

A previous study from West Bengal documented very high rate of occult HBV infection (OBI) among the HBsAg negative blood donors. This study was aimed to characterize the OBI strains circulating among the blood donors and to estimate the risk associated with the prevailing viral variants/mutants. Blo...

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Published in:	The Scientific World Journal
Main Authors:	Avik Biswas, Rajesh Panigrahi, Partha Kumar Chandra, Arup Banerjee, Sibnarayan Datta, Manisha Pal, Subhashish Chakraborty, Prasun Bhattacharya, Sekhar Chakrabarti, Runu Chakravarty
Format:	Article
Language:	English
Published:	Wiley 2013-01-01
Online Access:	http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2013/212704