Hepatitis B virus genomes of patients with fulminant hepatitis do not share a specific mutation

Hepatology

Volumn 24, Issue 2, 1996, Pages 300-306

  Sterneck, Martina ^a,b   Günther, Stephan ^b   Santantonio, Teresa ^c   Fischer, Lutz ^a   Broelsch, Christoph E ^a   Greten, Heiner ^a   Will, Hans ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER HAMBURG EPPENDORF   (Germany)

^b LEIBNIZ INSTITUTE FOR EXPERIMENTAL VIROLOGY   (Germany)

^c Clinica Malattie Infettive   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

VIRUS DNA;

ADULT; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA SEQUENCE; ENHANCER REGION; FEMALE; HEPATITIS; HEPATITIS B; HEPATITIS B VIRUS; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; LIVER FAILURE; LIVER TRANSPLANTATION; MALE; POINT MUTATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; VIRUS GENOME;

EID: 0029777324     PISSN: 02709139     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1053/jhep.1996.v24.pm0008690396     Document Type: Article

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