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SUBMITTER: Yan B
PROVIDER: S-EPMC5532365 | biostudies-literature | 2017 Jul
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Yan Bingyu B Lv Jingjing J Feng Yi Y Liu Jiaye J Ji Feng F Xu Aiqiang A Zhang Li L
Scientific reports 20170727 1
Limited information is available about the temporal trend in the prevalence and evolution of hepatitis B virus (HBV) S-gene mutations in the post-immunization era in China. From 2005 to 2013, 1077 hepatitis B cases under 15 years of age reported through Chinese National Notifiable Disease Reporting System (NNDRS) were successfully sequenced of S-gene in Shandong province, China. A total of 97 (9.01%) cases had amino acid (aa) substitution in the "α" determinant of HBsAg. The yearly prevalence fr ...[more]