Published in Hepatitis Weekly, May 4th, 2009
"To gain insight into the mechanism of the development of occult infection, we compared the full-length HBV genome from a blood donor carrying an occult infection (d4) with global genotype D genomes. The phylogenetic analysis of polymerase, core and X protein sequences did not distinguish d4 from other genotype D strains. Yet, d4 surface protein formed the evolutionary outgroup relative to all...
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Source: Hepatitis Weekly (2009-05-04)
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