Hepatitis B virus with X gene mutation is associated with the majority of serologically "silent" non-B, non-C chronic hepatitis

Microbiology and Immunology

Volumn 40, Issue 7, 1996, Pages 481-488

  Fukuda, Ryo ^a   Ishimura, Norihisa ^a   Kushiyama, Yoshinori ^a   Moriyama, Nobuyuki ^a   Ishihara, Shunji ^a   Chowdhury, Aktaruzzaman ^a   Tokuda, Alejandro ^a   Sakai, Shino ^a   Akagi, Shuji ^a   Watanabe, Makoto ^a   Fukumoto, Shiro ^a  

^a SHIMANE UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

HBV mutant; NBNC chronic hepatitis; X gene mutation

Indexed keywords

HEPATITIS B VIRUS;

HEPATITIS B VIRUS X PROTEIN; TRANSACTIVATOR PROTEIN; VIRUS ANTIGEN; VIRUS DNA;

ADULT; AGED; ALCOHOL LIVER DISEASE; ARTICLE; AUTOIMMUNE DISEASE; BLOOD; CHRONIC DISEASE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; FEMALE; GENETICS; HEPATITIS B VIRUS; HUMAN; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MOLECULAR GENETICS; MUTATION; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; VIROLOGY; VIRUS GENE; VIRUS HEPATITIS;

ADULT; AGED; ANTIGENS, VIRAL; AUTOIMMUNE DISEASES; BASE SEQUENCE; CHRONIC DISEASE; DNA, VIRAL; FEMALE; GENES, VIRAL; HEPATITIS B VIRUS; HEPATITIS, ALCOHOLIC; HEPATITIS, VIRAL, HUMAN; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MUTATION; TRANS-ACTIVATORS;

EID: 0030345693     PISSN: 03855600     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1348-0421.1996.tb01098.x     Document Type: Article

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