Prevalence of mutations in core promoter/precore region in Japanese patients with chronic hepatitis B virus infection

Digestive Diseases and Sciences

Volumn 43, Issue 11, 1998, Pages 2473-2478

  Nagasaka, Atsushi ^a   Hige, Shuhei ^a   Marutani, Masumi ^a   Tsunematsu, Izumi ^a   Saito, Makoto ^a   Yamamoto, Yoshiya ^a   Konishi, Shigeru ^a   Asaka, Masahiro ^a  

^a HOKKAIDO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Core promoter; Hepatitis B virus; Mutation; Precore

Indexed keywords

HEPATITIS B(E) ANTIGEN; VIRUS DNA;

ANTIGEN EXPRESSION; ARTICLE; CHRONIC HEPATITIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; FRAMESHIFT MUTATION; HEPATITIS B; HEPATITIS B VIRUS; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; VIRUS CORE; VIRUS GENE; VIRUS MUTATION; VIRUS REPLICATION;

EID: 0031771784     PISSN: 01632116     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1026690400897     Document Type: Article

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