Hepatitis B Virus
Research findings from M. Makuwa et al update understanding of hepatitis B virus
Published in Hepatitis Weekly, December 10th, 2007
According to a study from Franceville, Gabon, "In order to determine whether geographical or species clustering accounts for the distribution of hepatitis B virus (HBV) in subspecies of chimpanzees in Africa, four complete chimpanzee HBV (ChHBV) genome sequences were obtained from eight hepatitis B surface antigen-positive wild-born chimpanzees from Cameroon, Republic of Congo and Gabon. The serological profiles of these chimpanzees corresponded to the acute or chronic highly replicative phase of HBV infection, as confirmed by high plasma HBV loads."
"Analysis of the sequence alignment of 256 aa (S region) from the eight HBV-infected chimpanzees allowed us to determine...
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Source: Hepatitis Weekly (2007-12-10)
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