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5. 47‐1: The World Smallest OLED Microdisplay Projection Device Design Methodology

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Itonaga, Kazuichiro, primary, Sudo, Shoji, additional, Nishikawa, Jun, additional, Kimura, Kei, additional, Uchiyama, Hiroki, additional, Yagi, Masato, additional, Sawano, Ryosuke, additional, Matsuyama, Takatoshi, additional, Sasaki, Kouji, additional, Itatsu, Kentaro, additional, Tsuchiya, Takahiro, additional, Nomura, Yoshiyuki, additional, and Sato, Yoshihisa, additional

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2020
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6. The Influence of Age on the Outcomes of Traumatic Brain Injury: Findings from a Japanese Nationwide Survey (J-ASPECT Study-Traumatic Brain Injury)

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Keitaro Yamagami, Ryota Kurogi, Ai Kurogi, Kunihiro Nishimura, Daisuke Onozuka, Nice Ren, Akiko Kada, Ataru Nishimura, Koichi Arimura, Keisuke Ido, Masahiro Mizoguchi, Tetsuya Sakamoto, Takamasa Kayama, Michiyasu Suzuki, Hajime Arai, Akihito Hagihara, Koji Iihara, Masayoshi Takigami, Kenji Kamiyama, Kiyohiro Houkin, Shougo Nishi, Tetsuyuki Yoshimoto, Sadao Kaneko, Koji Oka, Hiroshi Ooyama, Kyousuke Kamada, Kenichi Makino, Naoki Tokumitsu, Kazuhiro Sako, Susumu Suzuki, Nozomi Suzuki, Naoto Izumi, Kazumi Nitta, Masahumi Ootaki, Masanori Isobe, Mikio Nishiya, Takaaki Yamazaki, Syouji Mabuchi, Kuniaki Ogasawara, Naohiko Kubo, Yukihiko Shimizu, Keiichi Saito, Tatumi Yamanome, Atsuo Yoshino, Mitsuyuki Fujitsuka, Masaaki Takami, Hirotoshi Ohtaka, Teruyuki Hirano, Yosiaki Shiokawa, Takaharu Okada, Ichiro Suzuki, Michihiro Kohno, Jou Haraoka, Yoshinori Arai, Noriyoshi Kawamura, Akira Isoshima, Masaharu Yasue, Mitsuhiko Hokari Takayoshi Kobayashi, Kensuke Kawai, Taketoshi Maehara, Makoto Noguchi, Haruhiko Hoshino, Hirofumi Hiyama, Kensaku Yoshida, Osamu Utsugi, Yasuaki Takeda, Kouichi Tamaki, Hirohide Karasudani, Takao Urabe, Shiro Kobayashi, Michio Nakamura, Yorio Koguchi, Junichi Ono, Sumio Suda, Hiromu Hadeishi, Toshio Fukutake, Kenji Wakui, Hirokazu Tanno, Naoki Ishige, Takashi Ohasi, Hideki Sakai, Yasuaki Nishimura, Takayuki Watanabe, Takashi Matsumoto, Naoki Koketsu, Yuichi Hirose, Manabu Doyu, Toshinori Hasegawa, Naoto Kuwayama, Shinichi Terao, Nobuhiko Mizutani, Noriyuki Suzaki, Satoshi Okuda, Keizo Yasui, Yukio Seki, Yasuhiro Hasegawa, Akira Ikeda, Youtarou Takeuchi, Sigeki Ohara, Yoshio Araki, Toshihiko Wakabayashi, Hisashi Tanaka, Junpei Yoshimoto, Makoto Sugiura, Ogura Koichiro, Nozomu Kobayashi, Tomonori Yamada, Amami Kato, Ohtsuki Toshiho, Akatsuki Wakayama, Jun Takahashi, Hiroharu Kataoka, Toshiki Yoshimine, Yoshikazu Nakajima, Hidehuku Gi, Ryunosuke Uranishi, Yusaku Nakamura, Kazunori Yamanaka, Kazumi Ohmori, Hiroyuki Matsumoto, Yoshitugu Oiwa, Yosihiko Uemura, Hiroaki Fujiwara, Yoshiyasu Iwai, Masashi Morikawa, Kazuyuki Tane, Kazuo Hashikawa, Toshiyuki Fujinaka, Shunichi Yoneda, Kohsuke Yamashita, Masahiko Kitano, Shinsuke Tominaga, Kazuhito Nakamura, Katsuhiko Kono, Kenji Ohata, Hirokatsu Taniguchi, Takanori Hazama, Toshihiko Kuroiwa, Yoji Tamura, Kazusige Maeno, Motohiro Arai, Masaaki Iwase, Kenji Hashimoto, Keisuke Yamada, Takashi Turuno, Tsutomu Ichinose, Shinichiro Kurokawa, Takeshi Matsuyama, Toshiaki Fujita, Takamichi Yuguchi, Yoshihumi Teramoto, Hiroto Kakita, Takayuki Matsuo, Tsuyoshi Izumo, Nobutoshi Ryu, Wataru Haraguchi Naoki Kitagawa, Makio Kaminogo, Seisaburo Sakamoto, Yosiharu Tokunaga, Ei-Ichirou Urasaki, Junichi Kuratsu, Akira Takada, Tadashi Terasaki, Isao Fuwa Hisami Oosima, Shigeo Yamashiro, Makoto Yoshikawa Hiromasa Tsuiki, Kazunari Koga, Hiroshi Egami, Tadao Kawamura, Kunihiko Mitsuo, Takamitu Hikawa Masaki Morisige, Yuu Takeda, Yutaka Yamaguchi, Shiro Miyata Shunro Uchinokura, Tomokazu Goya, Hideo Takeshima, Kazutaka Yatsushiro, Hajime Ohta, Tatsui Nagadou, Kazuho Hirahara, Souichi Obara, Hiroshi Seto, Koiti Moroki, Kazunori Arita, Shogo Ishiuchi, Toshimitsu Uchihara, Susumu Mekaru, Tomoaki Nagamine, Naoki Tomiyama Jin Momoji, Kouzi Idomari Atusi Kimoto, Tsutomu Kadekaru, Hirosi Syamoto, Osamu Sasaki, Makoto Minagawa, Hideaki Takahashi, Kiyoshi Onda Hiroyuki Arai, Shigekazu Takeuchi, Hiroshi Abe, Osamu Fukuda, Mitsuo Kouno, Tetsuro Tamura, Yukio Horie Michiya Kubo, Hiroaki Hondo, Hisashi Takada, Toru Masuoka, Naoki Shirasaki, Hisashi Nitta, Makoto Kimura Yasuo Katsuki, Yutaka Hayashi Hisato Minamide, Shigeru Munemoto, Kiyonobu Ikeda, Mitsutoshi Nakada Yutaka Hayashi, Syuji Sato, Taketo Hatano, Osamu Yamamura, Masanori Kabuto, Takahiro Sakuma Jyunya Hayashi, Hiroyuki Kinouchi, Hidehito Koizumi, Syougo Imae, Manabu Fujita, Masakazu Suga, Shinji Iwata Kanehisa Kohno, Kiichiro Zenke, Mutsuo Fujisawa, Hikaru Mizobuchi, Satoru Hayashi, Masanori Morimoto, Tetsuya Ueba, Hiroyuki Nishimura, Naoki Ikawa, Yuzo Matsumoto, Seiji Kannuki, Masahiro Kagawa, Naoki Hayashi, Takashi Tamiya Atsushi Shindo, Kimihiro Yoshino, Tetsuya Masaoka, Ichiro Nakahara, Akira Nakamizo Satoshi Suzuki, Yuji Okamoto, Haruki Takahashi, Katsuyuki Hirakawa, Shinji Nagata, Akio Ookura, Hidenori Yoshida Yoshiro Kaneko, Hiroshi Nakane, Isao Inoue, Tsutomu Hitotsumatsu, Terukazu Kuramoto Kouichi Kuramoto, Yoshihisa Matumoto Hiromichi Ooishi, Tooru Inoue Masani Nonaka, Motohiro Morioka, Hiroshi Sugimori Shuji Sakata, Hiroshi Takashima, Shin-Ichiro Ishihara, Kenji Suzuyama, Masayuki Miyazono, Masafumi Morimoto Itaro Hattori, Satoshi Ozaki, Nobuo Hirota, Yasunori Takemoto Yasuhiko Mochimatsu, Makoto Takagi, Isao Yamamoto Kenji Nakayama, Yoshinori Uchida Hiroshi Tanaka, Katsumi Sakata, Kawahara Nobutaka, Motohiro Nomura, Hitoshi Ozawa, Kotaro Tsumura, Makoto Inaba Michiyuki Maruyama, Tatsuro Mori, Takahisa Mori, Masato Sugitani, Yuichiro Tanaka, Masaru Yamada, Mitsunori Matsumae, Keiichirou Onitsuka, Kosuke Miyahara Tatsuya Takahashi, Sumio Endou, Hidekazu Takahashi, Hiroyuki Kaidu, Akira Tsunoda Chikashi Maruki, Takamitsu Fujimaki, Hidetoshi Ooigawa, Masahiko Tanaka Masatsugu Uchida, Hiroshi Wanihuti Kouiti Katoh, Akio Hyodo, Ken Asakura, Shigeyoshi Nakajima, Takao Kanzawa, Hideyuki Kurihara, Sigehiro Ohmori, Mitsugi Yoshinao Hiroshi Kusunoki, Satoshi Magarisawa, Shinichi Okabe, Yuuji Kujiraoka, Shin Tsuruoka, Mikihiko Takeshita, Tetsuya Yamamoto Akira Matsumura, Kazuya Uemura, Hitoshi Tabata, Makoto Sonobe, Masashi Nakatsukasa Ryoji Yoshida, Norifumi Shimoeda, Hideo Kunimine, Masayuki Ishihara, Nozomu Murai, Nobukuni Murakami, Minoru Kidooka, Yoshihiro Iwamoto, Hiroshi Tenjin, Kouji Shiga Masahiko Takamasu, Nobuhito Mori, Shigeru Kose, Eiji Kohmura, Keigo Matsumoto, Takayuki Sakaki, Hiroji Miyake, Eiichiro Mabuchi, Masayuki Yokota, Hideyuki Ohnishi Yosihiro Kuga, Mitsuru Kimura, Osamu Narumi Masaaki Saiki, Norio Nakajima, Minoru Asahi, Junji Koyama, Shinya Noda, Junichi Iida, Toyohisa Fujita, Hiroyuki Nakase, Hidehiro Hirabayashi Toru Hoshida, Takayoshi Fujimoto, Naoyuki Nakao, Yoshiyuki Tanaka, Fuminori Ozaki, Yoshinari Nakamura, Kazuhito Miki, Takashi Watanabe, Seiko Hasegawa, Hiromu Konno, Atsuhito Takemura, Atsuya Okubo, Hitoshi Saito, Tatsuya Ishikawa Taizen Nakase, Hiroaki Shimizu Toshio Sasajima, Masayuki Sasou, Yoichi Watanabe, Taku Sato Kiyoshi Saito, Satoshi Taira Masahiro Satoh, Takayuki Koizumi, Yasuhiro Suzuki Shoji Mashiyama, Tomoyoshi Oikawa, Yukihiko Sonoda, Rei Kondo Shinjiro Saito, Atsuo Shinoda, Eiichiro Kamatsuka, Keiten So, Toshihiko Kinjo, Tooru Sasaki Kennji Itou, Hidenori Endo Hiroaki Shimizu, Hirosi Karibe, Kou Takahashi, Masayuki Nakajima, Kazuyoshi Watanabe, Motohiro Takayama, Taro Komuro, Hisao Hirai Fumio Suzuki, Hidenori Suzuki, Hiroto Murata, Fumitaka Miya, Kenji Kanamaru, Akira Tamura, Kiyoshi Harada, Seiji Fukazawa, Seiya Takehara, Yoshihiko Watanabe, Teiji Nakayama, Haruhiko Sato Hiroshi Nagura, Shinji Amano Chiharu Tanoi, Katsuhiro Kuroda, Satoru Morooka, Takafumi Wataya Masashi Kitagawa, Kazuo Koide, Tetsuya Tanigawara, Toru Iwama, Junki Ito, Shinji Noda, Kazuyuki Kouno, Kazuo Kitazawa, Yoshikazu Kusano Toshiki Takemae, Masanobu Hokama, Hiroki Sato Yoshihisa Nishiyama, Tatsuya Seguchi, Sumio Kobayashi Yoshihiko Inui, Youji Oohigashi, Shinsuke Muraoka, Masaki Miyatake, Kensuke Hayashida Nakagawa Shinichi, Atsushi Inoue, Keiichi Sakai, Shuhei Yamaguchi, Tatsuya Mizoue Fusao Ikawa, Gen Ishida Hideki Irie, Takato Kagawa, Yoichiro Namba, Hiroyuki Nakashima, Isao Date Koji Abe, Masaaki Uno, Masaki Chin Sen Yamagata, Hidemiti Sasayama Soitiro Takao, Hideyuki Yoshida Kouji Muneda, Akira Watanebe, Syouichi Katou, Yasuhiro Hamada, Takafumi Nishizaki, Katsuhiro Yamashita, Takaharu Nakamura Ryuji Nakamura, Shinichi Wakabayashi, Takahito Okazaki, Kaoru Kurisu, Masayasu Matsumoto, Atsushi Tominaga Katsuzo Kiya, Masaaki Shibukawa Syuichi Oki, Toshinori Nakahara, Shinji Okita, Tuyosi Torii, Minoru Nakagawa Kenjirou Fujiwara, Takashi Matsuoka Syuuhei Nishimura, Osamu Hamasaki Naoyuki Isobe, Junichiro Satomi Shinji Nagahiro, Masahito Agawa, Hirofumi Oka, Kunikazu Yoshimura, Tsutomu Kato, Nobuaki Kobayasi Satoshi Minoshima, Nobuhiro Mikuni, Rokuya Tanikawa, Jyunkou Sasaki, Yasunari Otawara, Teiji Tominaga, Tatsuya Sasaki, Sunao Takemura, Masahisa Kawakami, Satoshi Ihara, Yasushi Shibata, Takashi Saegusa, Toshihiko Iuchi, Chiaki Ito, Osamu Okuda, Kazunari Yoshida, Sadao Suga Masateru Katayama, Oikawa Akihiro, Naohisa Miura, Takahiro Ota, Toshihiro Kumabe, Sachio Suzuki, Takashi Kumagai, Keiichi Nishimaki, Kazuhiro Hongo, Hiroaki Shigeta, Kazuyoshi Hattori, Yoichi Uozumi, Norimoto Nakahara, Nobukazu Hashimoto, Shinichi Shirakami Shu Imai, Yoshinari Okumura, Ryo Tamaki Kazuhiro Yokoyama, Susumu Miyamoto, Kazuo Yamamoto, Tsugumichi Ichioka, Tsuyoshi Inoue, Manabu Kinoshita, Minoru Saitoh, Hideo Aihara, Hajimu Miyake, Kotaro Ogihara Tukasa Nishiura, Shigeki Nishino, Yasuyuki Miyoshi, Tadashi Arisawa, Shigeru Daido Shoji Tsuchimoto, Kimihisa Kinoshita, Kiyoshi Yuki Keisuke Migita, Keiichi Akatsuka, Hirosuke Fujisawa, Tadahisa Shono, Hitoshi Tsugu, Shuji Hayashi, Tatsuya Abe Toshio Matsushima, Susumu Nakashima, Takehisa Tuji, Akihiko Kaga, Reizou Kanemaru, Koji Takasaki, Junichi Imamura, Masahiro Noha, Saburo Watanabe, Nobuyuki Sakai, Yasuhisa Yoshida Hiroaki Minami, Tomoyoshi Okumura, Shinjitsu Nishimura, Shinichi Numazawa, Kiyoshi Kazekawa Masanori Tsutsumi, Kouzou Fukuyama, and Yasuhiro Fujimoto

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Adult, Male, medicine.medical_specialty, Adolescent, Databases, Factual, Traumatic brain injury, Nationwide survey, 03 medical and health sciences, Young Adult, 0302 clinical medicine, Level of consciousness, Japan, Surveys and Questionnaires, Epidemiology, Brain Injuries, Traumatic, medicine, Humans, Hospital Mortality, Child, Aged, Retrospective Studies, Aged, 80 and over, Univariate analysis, business.industry, Neurological status, Glasgow Coma Scale, Age Factors, Infant, Newborn, Infant, Odds ratio, Middle Aged, medicine.disease, Patient Discharge, 030220 oncology & carcinogenesis, Child, Preschool, Emergency medicine, Surgery, Female, Neurology (clinical), business, 030217 neurology & neurosurgery
Abstract

The epidemiology of patients with traumatic brain injury (TBI) has changed dramatically over recent decades as a result of rapid advances in aging societies. We assessed the influence of age on outcomes of patients with TBI and sought to identify prognostic factors for in-hospital mortality of TBI among elderly patients.Using a nationwide database, we analyzed data from 5651 patients with TBI. Univariate analysis was conducted to compare patient demographics, neurologic status on admission, radiologic findings, systemic complication rates, length of hospital stay, in-hospital mortality, and home discharge rates between elderly and nonelderly groups. Multivariable analysis was conducted to determine prognostic factors for in-hospital mortality among elderly patients.Overall in-hospital mortality was significantly higher in elderly patients (12.8% vs. 19.3%; P0.001). In-hospital mortality of elderly patients with mild TBI increased significantly at7 days after admission, whereas that of elderly patients with moderate or severe TBI was significantly higher immediately after admission. Age (odds ratio [OR], 1.62; P = 0.024), male sex (OR, 1.30; P = 0.004), Japan Coma Scale score on admission (OR, 5.95, P0.001), and incidence of acute subdural hematoma (OR, 1.89; P0.001) were associated with in-hospital mortality in elderly patients with TBI.Elderly patients with TBI showed significantly higher in-hospital mortality. Delayed increases in in-hospital mortality were observed among elderly patients with mild TBI. Level of consciousness on admission was the strongest predictor of in-hospital mortality among elderly patients.

Published
2019

9. Atomic Diffusion Bonding for Optical Devices with High Optical Density

Author

Gen Yonezawa, Takahashi Yuichi, Sato Yoshihisa, Miyuki Uomoto, Takehito Shimatsu, and Abe Shohei

Subjects
Atomic diffusion, Materials science, business.industry, Optoelectronics, Optical density, business
Abstract

In recent years, high-brightness projector products equipped with laser light sources are widely used for digital cinema, projection mapping, and simulation. Their increased luminance enhances the optical energy density of the optical system, and the strong photon and thermal energies degrade the organic adhesive used in the optical interface. This has come to pose a severe shortcoming affecting the reliability and durability of optical elements used in optical systems. A new bonding method that provides high light transmittance with high bonding strength is necessary for the optical interface of high optical density devices. Atomic diffusion bonding (ADB) of wafers is a promising process to achieve room-temperature wafer bonding: Thin metal films are fabricated using sputter deposition on two flat wafers’ surfaces, with subsequent bonding of the two films on the wafers in vacuum (1,2). Bonding can be done even with film thickness of a few angstroms on each side. Incident light can be transmitted through such thin bonded films without any marked reduction in intensity. The use of thin Ti films is effective to achieve high light transmittance while maintaining high bonding strength to bond oxide wafers such as synthetic quartz crystal (2). However, optical energy absorption of 2% remains at the bonded interface even when the wafers are bonded using 0.2 nm thick Ti film on each side. A reduction of Ti film thickness below 0.2 nm enhances the transmittance further, but it reduces the bonding strength considerably. To enhance the light transmittance at the bonded interface, we propose atomic diffusion bonding using oxide underlayers: After oxide films are deposited on two flat wafers’ surfaces, the wafers are bonded as usual using thin metal films at room temperature using atomic diffusion bonding as shown in figure (A). Oxygen dissociated from oxide layers enhances the formation of Ti oxide; 100% light transmittance at the bonded interface can be achieved by post-bonded annealing in air at low temperatures. Table (B) presents the light transmittance at wavelength λ of 500 nm at the bonded interface for wafers bonded using Ti(0.5 nm) on each side. In the ADB process with oxide underlayer, SiO2 films deposited using ion-assisted vapor deposition were used. The SiO2 layer surface roughness was less than 0.5 nm. In ADB process with SiO2 underlayer, light transmittance at the bonded interface was enhanced considerably from 90% for as-bonded wafers to 100% for wafers annealed at 300 °C. It is noteworthy that this marked enhancement of the light transmittance is applicable to any material wafer. Without an oxide underlayer, enhancement of the light transmittance by annealing is slight: The enhancement for bonded quartz glass wafers, for instance, was from 90% for as-bonded to 91% for annealed even at 500 °C. Moreover, the surface free energy at the bonded interface for quartz glass wafers bonded using SiO2 underlayers was greater than that of wafers without the underlayers, indicating another important merit for ADB processing with an oxide underlayer. This bonding technique is applicable to almost all optical interfaces between mirror-polished surfaces of any material, and is expected to be useful to fabricate optical devices with high optical density such as high-brightness projectors with laser light sources. (1) T. Shimatsu and M. Uomoto, “Atomic diffusion bonding of wafers with thin nanocrystalline metal films,” J. Vac. Sci. Technol., B 28, 706-714 (2010). (2) T. Shimatsu, M. Uomoto, and H. Kon, “Invited: Room Temperature Bonding Using Thin Metal Films (Bonding Energy and Technical Potential),” ECS Transactions, 64(5), 317-328 (2014). Figure 1

Published
2018

13. Virological characteristics of hepatitis B genotype G/A2 recombination virus in Japan

Author

Tsuzuki, Yuji, primary, Watanabe, Tsunamasa, additional, Iio, Etsuko, additional, Fujisaki, Seiichiro, additional, Ibe, Shiro, additional, Kani, Satomi, additional, Hamada-Tsutsumi, Susumu, additional, Yokomaku, Yoshiyuki, additional, Iwatani, Yasumasa, additional, Sugiura, Wataru, additional, Okuse, Chiaki, additional, Okumura, Akihiko, additional, Sato, Yoshihisa, additional, and Tanaka, Yasuhito, additional

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2015
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16. Atomic Diffusion Bonding for Optical Devices with High Optical Density

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Yonezawa, Gen, Takahashi, Yuichi, Sato, Yoshihisa, Abe, Shohei, Uomoto, Miyuki, and Shimatsu, Takehito

Abstract

An inorganic bonding method providing 100% light transmittance at the bonded interface was proposed for fabricating devices with high optical density. First, we fabricated 5000 nm-thick SiO2 oxide underlayers on synthetic quartz glass wafers. After the film surfaces were polished to reduce surface roughness, the wafers with oxide underlayers were bonded using thin Ti films in vacuum at room temperature as a usual atomic diffusion process. After post annealing at 300 degC, 100% light transmittance at the bonded interface with the surface free energy at the bonded interface greater than 2 J/m2 was achieved. Dissociated oxygen from oxide layers probably enhanced Ti films oxidation, resulting in high light transmittance with high bonding strength attributable to the annealing. Using this bonding process, we fabricated a polarizing beam splitter and demonstrated that this bonding process is useful to fabricate devices with high optical density.

Published
2018

17. Virological characteristics of hepatitis B genotype G/A2 recombination virus in Japan.

Author

Tsuzuki, Yuji, Watanabe, Tsunamasa, Iio, Etsuko, Fujisaki, Seiichiro, Ibe, Shiro, Kani, Satomi, Hamada‐Tsutsumi, Susumu, Yokomaku, Yoshiyuki, Iwatani, Yasumasa, Sugiura, Wataru, Okuse, Chiaki, Okumura, Akihiko, Sato, Yoshihisa, and Tanaka, Yasuhito

Subjects
HEPATITIS B virus, GENOTYPES, VIRUS phylogeny, VIRAL genomes, VIRAL replication
Abstract

Aim We identified four cases of infection with hepatitis B virus genotype G and A2 recombinant (HBV/G/A2) strains, which were initially overlooked by enzyme immunoassay-based genotyping. The patients were all men who have sex with men (MSM) and inhabited several metropolitan areas of Japan, suggesting that the recombinant strains may be circulating among high-risk groups such as MSM. Here, we investigated the genomic structure and virological properties of the HBV/G/A2 strains. Methods Complete genome sequences of the isolates were determined and phylogenetically analyzed. Replication efficiency of HBV/G/A2 was investigated by transfecting plasmids containing 1.24-fold viral genome. The in vivo viral kinetics of HBV/G/A2 were investigated using chimeric mice with humanized livers. Results Phylogenetic analysis revealed that the four strains were almost identical (>99.7% homologous). The preS2/S region of these strains was highly homologous to that of genotype A2 and the remaining region was almost identical to that of genotype G, reflecting inter-genotypic recombination. Interestingly, in all four cases, genotype A was co-infected as a minor population. In vitro analysis revealed that HBV/G/A2 had a low replication rate. Although detectable viremia was not measurable following the inoculation of HBV/G/A2 into chimeric mice, subsequent superinfection of HBV genotype A greatly enhanced HBV/G/A2 replication and viral spread. Conclusion We found that four cases of HBV/G/A2 recombinant among MSM patients in the metropolitan areas of Japan, and HBV/A co-infections are required for its efficient replication. High-risk groups such as MSM should be carefully tested for infection of genotype G-derived variants. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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2016
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