Prevalence and genotype distribution of hepatitis delta virus among chronic hepatitis B carriers in Central Vietnam

• Hung Minh Nguyen ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Hung Minh Nguyen, Bui Tien Sy

  * E-mail: bockc@rki.de (CTB); hungmolbio@gmail.com (HMN)

  Affiliation Center for Molecular Biology, Institute of Research and Development, Duy Tan University, Da Nang, Vietnam

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• Bui Tien Sy ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Hung Minh Nguyen, Bui Tien Sy

  Affiliation Department of Molecular Biology, 108 Military Central Hospital, Hanoi, Vietnam

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• Nguyen Thanh Trung,

  Affiliation Center for Molecular Biology, Institute of Research and Development, Duy Tan University, Da Nang, Vietnam

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• Nghiem Xuan Hoan,

  Affiliation Institute of Tropical Medicine, University of Tübingen, Tübingen, Germany

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• Heiner Wedemeyer,

  Affiliation German Center for Infection Research, Department for Gastroenterology, Hepatology, and Endocrinology, Medical School Hannover, Hannover, Germany

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• Thirumalaisamy P. Velavan ,

  ¶‡ These authors share senior authorship on this work

  Affiliations Center for Molecular Biology, Institute of Research and Development, Duy Tan University, Da Nang, Vietnam, Institute of Tropical Medicine, University of Tübingen, Tübingen, Germany, Vietnamese-German Center for Medical Research, Hanoi, Vietnam

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• C-Thomas Bock

  * E-mail: bockc@rki.de (CTB); hungmolbio@gmail.com (HMN)

  ¶‡ These authors share senior authorship on this work

  Affiliation Department of Infectious Diseases, Robert Koch Institute, Berlin, Germany

  http://orcid.org/0000-0002-2773-486X

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