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SUBMITTER: Holzmayer V
PROVIDER: S-EPMC6618046 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Apr
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Journal of medical virology 20181108 4
The rare hepatitis B virus genotype I (HBV-I) classification includes complex A/G/C/U recombinants identified amongst the individuals from China, India, Laos, and Vietnam. Herein we report the first HBV-I specimen from Thailand, with detectable HBsAg despite a 10-amino-acid truncation. This HBV-I genome has a similar recombinant pattern to reference strains, including a C region that branches basal to references, suggesting a premodern era recombination event gave rise to HBV-I. With an average ...[more]