Association between frequency of amino acid changes in core region of hepatitis B virus (HBV) and the presence of precore mutation in Japanese HBV carriers

Journal of Gastroenterology

Volumn 32, Issue 5, 1997, Pages 611-622

  Karasawa, Tatsunobu ^a,b   Shirasawa, Takuji ^b   Okawa, Yasuhiko ^a   Kuramoto, Akira ^a   Shimada, Noritomo ^a   Aizawa, Yoshio ^a   Zeniya, Mikio ^a   Toda, Gotaro ^a  

^a JIKEI UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

^b TOKYO METROPOLITAN INSTITUTE OF GERONTOLOGY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Frequency of core mutations; HBeAg; Hepatitis B virus; Precore stop codon

Indexed keywords

AMINO ACID; HEPATITIS B(E) ANTIGEN;

ADULT; AMINO ACID SUBSTITUTION; ARTICLE; CHRONIC HEPATITIS; CLINICAL ARTICLE; DISEASE COURSE; ETIOLOGY; FEMALE; HEPATITIS B; HEPATITIS B VIRUS; HUMAN; MALE; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEROCONVERSION; STOP CODON; VIRUS CARRIER; VIRUS MUTATION;

EID: 0030723872     PISSN: 09441174     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/BF02934110     Document Type: Article

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