Mutations in the envelope gene of hepatitis B virus variants co-occurring with antibody to surface antigen in sera from patients with chronic hepatitis B

Journal of General Virology

Volumn 77, Issue 8, 1996, Pages 1825-1831

  Kohno, Hiroki ^a   Inoue, Taisuke ^a   Tsuda, Fumio ^b   Okamoto, Hiroaki ^c   Akahane, Yoshihiro ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF YAMANASHI   (Japan)

^b Shinagawa ku   (Japan)

^c JICHI MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HEPATITIS B SURFACE ANTIGEN; MEMBRANE ANTIGEN; MUTANT PROTEIN; VIRUS ANTIBODY; VIRUS DNA; VIRUS ENVELOPE PROTEIN;

ADULT; AGED; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; FEMALE; HEPATITIS B; HEPATITIS B VIRUS; HUMAN; MALE; MISSENSE MUTATION; MOLECULAR CLONING; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; VIRUS GENE;

EID: 0029760508     PISSN: 00221317     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1099/0022-1317-77-8-1825     Document Type: Article

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