Detection of Hepatitis B virus subgenotype A1 in a Quilombo community from Maranhão, Brazil
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- 25 August 2011
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Springer Science and Business Media LLC in Virology Journal
- Vol. 8 (1), 415
- https://doi.org/10.1186/1743-422X-8-415
Abstract
The Brazilian population is mainly descendant from European colonizers, Africans and Native Americans. Some Afro-descendants lived in small isolated communities since the slavery period. The epidemiological status of HBV infection in Quilombos communities from northeast of Brazil remains unknown. The aim of this study was to characterize the HBV genotypes circulating inside a Quilombo isolated community from Maranhão State, Brazil.Keywords
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