Concealed for a Long Time on the Marches of Empires: Hepatitis B Virus Genotype I
Genotype I, the penultimate HBV genotype to date, was granted the status of a bona fide genotype only in the XXIst century after some hesitations.The reason for these hesitations was that genotype I is a complex recombinant virus formed with segments from three original genotypes, A, C, and G.It was estimated that genotype I is responsible for kt19