Biologic properties of hepatitis B viral genomes with mutations in the precore promoter and precore open reading frame

Virology

Volumn 233, Issue 2, 1997, Pages 374-381

  Scaglioni, Pier Paolo ^a   Melegari, Margherita ^a   Wands, Jack R ^a,b  

^a HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^b MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL CANCER CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; GENE MUTATION; HEPATITIS B VIRUS; NONHUMAN; OPEN READING FRAME; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; VIRUS GENOME;

HEPATITIS B VIRUS;

EID: 0030750617     PISSN: 00426822     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/viro.1997.8594     Document Type: Article

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