Active hepatitis B virus replication in the presence of anti-HBe is associated with viral variants containing an inactive pre-C region

Virology

Volumn 176, Issue 2, 1990, Pages 596-603

  Tong, Shuping ^a   Li, Jisu ^a   Vitvitski, Ludiviila ^a   Trépo, Christian ^a  

^a INSERM   (France)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; GENETIC ANALYSIS; HEPATITIS B; HEPATITIS B VIRUS; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; IMMUNITY; METHODOLOGY; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RESTRICTION MAPPING; VIRUS GENE; VIRUS REPLICATION;

BASE SEQUENCE; CLONING, MOLECULAR; DNA, VIRAL; HEPATITIS B; HEPATITIS B ANTIBODIES; HEPATITIS B CORE ANTIGENS; HEPATITIS B E ANTIGENS; HEPATITIS B VIRUS; HEPATITIS, CHRONIC; HUMAN; IMMUNE SERA; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MUTATION; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RESTRICTION MAPPING; SUPPORT, NON-U.S. GOV'T; VIRUS REPLICATION;

HEPATITIS B VIRUS;

EID: 0025360675     PISSN: 00426822     EISSN: 10960341     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/0042-6822(90)90030-U     Document Type: Article

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