| molecular epidemiology of hbv infection in chronic hepatitis b virus infected patients in northeast india. | the present study aimed to evaluate the molecular epidemiology of hbv in chronic hbv infected cases from northeast india (nei), since scanty data are available from the region which has a predominant ethnically distinct tribal population. a total of 523 clinically diagnosed index chronic hbv infected cases and 172 asymptomatic patients (based on family screening) were enrolled with informed consent. patients were stratified based on serology, imaging, pathology, and clinical data and grouped as ... | 2015 | 25919572 |