Comparison of hepatitis B virus core promoter sequences in peripheral blood mononuclear cells and serum from patients with hepatitis B

Journal of General Virology

Volumn 78, Issue 3, 1997, Pages 649-653

  Laskus, Tomasz ^a   Wang, Lian Fu ^a   Radkowski, Marek ^b   Vargas, Hugo ^a   Cianciara, Janusz ^b,c   Poutous, Anthony ^a   Rakela, Jorge ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b Institute for Infectious and Parasitic Diseases   (Poland)

^c SP ZOZ Wojewodzki Szpital Zakazny Centrum Diagnostyki i Terapii AIDS Warszawa   (Poland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CORE PROTEIN;

ACUTE HEPATITIS; ARTICLE; CHRONIC HEPATITIS; CLINICAL ARTICLE; DNA SEQUENCE; HEPATITIS B; HEPATITIS B VIRUS; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; MOLECULAR CLONING; MONONUCLEAR CELL; NONHUMAN; NUCLEIC ACID BASE SUBSTITUTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; SINGLE STRAND CONFORMATION POLYMORPHISM; VIRUS REPLICATION;

EID: 0031059412     PISSN: 00221317     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1099/0022-1317-78-3-649     Document Type: Article

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