A genetic variant of hepatitis B virus divergent from known human and ape genotypes isolated from a Japanese patient and provisionally assigned to new genotype J.

K, Tatematsu; Y, Tanaka; F, Kurbanov; F, Sugauchi; S, Mano; T, Maeshiro; T, Nakayoshi; M, Wakuta; Y, Miyakawa; M, Mizokami

doi:10.1128/jvi.00462-09

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A genetic variant of hepatitis B virus divergent from known human and ape genotypes isolated from a Japanese patient and provisionally assigned to new genotype J.

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Tatematsu K

Tanaka Y

Kurbanov F

Abstract

Hepatitis B virus (HBV) of a novel genotype (J) was recovered from an 88-year-old Japanese patient with hepatocellular carcinoma who had a history of residing in Borneo during the World War II. It was divergent from eight human (A to H) and four ape (chimpanzee, gorilla, gibbon, and orangutan) HBV g...

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