Chronic infection with hepatitis B virus (HBV) greatly increases the risk for liver cirrhosis and
hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC). HBV isolates worldwide can be divided into ten genotypes …

Sequence heterogeneity is a feature of hepatitis B virus (HBV), the prototype member of the
family Hepadnaviridae. Based on an intergroup divergence of greater than 7.5% across the …

Hepatitis B virus (HBV) of a novel genotype (J) was recovered from an 88-year-old
Japanese patient with hepatocellular carcinoma who had a history of residing in Borneo …

The complete genomes were sequenced for ten hepatitis B virus (HBV) strains. Two of them,
from Spain and Sweden, were most similar to genotype D, although encoding d specificity …

Hepatitis B virus (HBV) is a member of the hepadnavirus family. Hepadnaviruses can be
found in both mammals (orthohepadnaviruses) and birds (avihepadnaviruses). The genetic …

Eight genotypes of hepatitis B virus (A–H) are currently recognized, and subgenotypes have
recently been described in four of these genotypes (A, B, C and F). The genotypes show a …

ABSTRACT A novel variant of hepatitis B virus was identified in Vietnam. This strain (HBV-
VH24) had a novel intergenotypic recombination between genotypes A, C, and G. VH24 …

In 1988, it was reported that the full nucleotide sequences of 18 hepatitis B virus (HBV)
strains clustered into four genetic groups (A to D) with more than 8% divergence between …

Hepatitis B virus (HBV) is one of the most widely distributed viruses that infect humankind.
Distinct clinical and virological characteristics of the HBV‐infection have been reported in …

Hepatitis C virus (HCV) evolution is thought to proceed by mutations within the six
genotypes. Here, we report on a viable spontaneous HCV recombinant and we show that …