Pre-core mutants of hepatitis B virus in patients receiving immunosuppressive treatment after orthotropic liver transplantation

Journal of Medical Virology

Volumn 50, Issue 2, 1996, Pages 135-144

  Protzer, Ulrike ^a   Goergen, Bernd ^a   Hopf, Uwe ^b   Neuhaus, Peter ^b   König, Volker ^b   Meyer Zum Büschenfelde, Karl Hermann ^a   Gerken, Guido ^a  

^a JOHANNES GUTENBERG UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^b HUMBOLDT UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Chronic hepatitis B; Evolution of HBV mutants; HBV reinfection; Liver transplantation; Pre Core Core variants of HBV

Indexed keywords

ALPHA2B INTERFERON; AZATHIOPRINE; CORE PROTEIN; CORTICOSTEROID; CYCLOSPORIN A; RECOMBINANT ALPHA2B INTERFERON;

ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; FOLLOW UP; HEPATITIS B; HEPATITIS B VIRUS; HUMAN; IMMUNOSUPPRESSIVE TREATMENT; LIVER TRANSPLANTATION; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; VIRUS CHARACTERIZATION; VIRUS CORE; VIRUS DETECTION; VIRUS MUTANT;

ANTIVIRAL AGENTS; DNA, VIRAL; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HEPATITIS B; HEPATITIS B CORE ANTIGENS; HEPATITIS B E ANTIGENS; HEPATITIS B SURFACE ANTIGENS; HEPATITIS B VIRUS; HUMANS; IMMUNOSUPPRESSIVE AGENTS; INTERFERON ALFA-2B; LIVER TRANSPLANTATION; PROTEIN PRECURSORS; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; TIME FACTORS;

HEPATITIS B VIRUS;

EID: 0029911152     PISSN: 01466615     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1096-9071(199610)50:2<135::AID-JMV6>3.0.CO;2-B     Document Type: Article

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