Hepatitis B virus genotypes A and D in Uganda

• Main Authors: Jackie T. Zirabamuzale (Author), Christopher K. Opio (Author), Freddie Bwanga (Author), Emmanuel Seremba (Author), Betty S. Apica (Author), Robert Colebunders (Author), Ponsiano Ocama (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: Elsevier, 2016-01-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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Background: The prevalence of hepatitis B virus (HBV) infection in Uganda is 10%. Hepatitis B virus genotypes impact on treatment response, rate of spontaneous recovery and progression of chronic HBV infection and hepatocellular carcinoma. There is little information on the HBV genotypic distributio...