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SUBMITTER: Radjef N
PROVIDER: S-EPMC369207 | biostudies-literature | 2004 Mar
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Radjef Nadjia N Gordien Emmanuel E Ivaniushina Valeria V Gault Elyanne E Anaïs Patricia P Drugan Tudor T Trinchet Jean-Claude JC Roulot Dominique D Tamby Mathieu M Milinkovitch Michel C MC Dény Paul P
Journal of virology 20040301 5
Hepatitis D virus (HDV) is a satellite of hepatitis B virus (HBV) for transmission and propagation and infects nearly 20 million people worldwide. The HDV genome is a compact circular single-stranded RNA genome with extensive intramolecular complementarity. Despite its different epidemiological and pathological patterns, the variability and geographical distribution of HDV are limited to three genotypes and two subtypes that have been characterized to date. Phylogenetic reconstructions based on ...[more]