Analysis of Ultra-Deep Pyrosequencing and Cloning Based Sequencing of the Basic Core Promoter/Precore/Core Region of Hepatitis B Virus Using Newly Developed Bioinformatics Tools

• Mukhlid Yousif ,

  ¶These authors also contributed equally to this work.

  Affiliation Hepatitis Virus Diversity Research Programme, Department of Internal Medicine, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, Gauteng, South Africa

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• Trevor G. Bell ,

  ¶These authors also contributed equally to this work.

  Affiliation Hepatitis Virus Diversity Research Programme, Department of Internal Medicine, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, Gauteng, South Africa

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• Hatim Mudawi,

  Affiliation Department of Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, University of Khartoum, Khartoum, Khartoum State, Sudan

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• Dieter Glebe,

  Affiliation Institute of Medical Virology, National Reference Centre of Hepatitis B and D, Justus, Liebig-University of Giessen, Giessen, Hesse, Germany

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• Anna Kramvis

  * E-mail: Anna.Kramvis@wits.ac.za

  Affiliation Hepatitis Virus Diversity Research Programme, Department of Internal Medicine, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, Gauteng, South Africa

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