tailieunhanh - Báo cáo hóa học: " The association of complex liver disorders with HBV genotypes prevalent in Pakistan"

Tham khảo tài liệu 'báo cáo hóa học: " the association of complex liver disorders with hbv genotypes prevalent in pakistan"', luận văn - báo cáo phục vụ nhu cầu học tập, nghiên cứu và làm việc hiệu quả | Virology Journal BioMed Central Research Open Access The association of complex liver disorders with HBV genotypes prevalent in Pakistan Saeeda Baig 1 Anwar Ali Siddiqui2 Waqaruddin Ahmed3 Huma Qureshi4 and Ambreen Arif5 Address Associate professor Department of Biochemistry Ziauddin Medical College Ziauddin University Karachi Pakistan 2Associate Dean Department of Research and Department of Biological and Biomedical Sciences Aga Khan University Karachi Pakistan 3Incharge Pakistan Medical Research Council Jinnah Postgraduate Medical Center Karachi Pakistan 4Executive Director Pakistan Medical Research Council Islamabad Pakistan and 5Research Officer Pakistan Medical Research Council Jinnah Postgraduate Medical Center Karachi Pakistan Email Saeeda Baig - baigsaeeda@ Anwar Ali Siddiqui - Waqaruddin Ahmed - pmrcjpmc@ Huma Qureshi - pmrc@ Ambreen Arif - pmrcjpmc@ Corresponding author Published 27 November 2007 Received 12 October 2007 Accepted 27 November 2007 Virology Journal 2007 4 128 doi I743-422X-4-I28 This article is available from http content 4 1 128 2007 Baig et al licensee BioMed Central Ltd. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License http licenses by which permits unrestricted use distribution and reproduction in any medium provided the original work is properly cited. Abstract Background Genotyping of HBV is generally used for determining the epidemiological relationship between various virus strains and origin of infection mostly in research studies. The utility of genotyping for clinical applications is only beginning to gain importance. Whether HBV genotyping will constitute part of the clinical evaluation of Hepatitis B patients depends largely on the availability of the relevance of the evidence based information. Since Pakistan has a HBV genotype distribution which has been .