Neonatal fulminant hepatitis B: Structural and functional analysis of complete hepatitis B virus genomes from mother and infant

Journal of Infectious Diseases

Volumn 177, Issue 5, 1998, Pages 1378-1381

  Sterneck, Martina ^a   Kalinina, Tatjana ^b   Otto, Stephanie ^b   Günther, Stephan ^b   Fischer, Lutz ^b   Burdelski, Martin ^b   Greten, Heiner ^b   Broelsch, Christoph E ^b   Will, Hans ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER HAMBURG EPPENDORF   (Germany)

^b NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HEPATITIS B(E) ANTIBODY; HEPATITIS B(E) ANTIGEN; VIRUS PROTEIN;

ARTICLE; CODON; GENE MUTATION; GENE SEQUENCE; HEPATIC ENCEPHALOPATHY; HEPATITIS B; HEPATITIS B VIRUS; HEPATOMA CELL; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; JAUNDICE; LIVER FAILURE; MOLECULAR CLONING; NEWBORN HEPATITIS; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; VERTICAL TRANSMISSION; VIRUS GENE; VIRUS TRANSMISSION;

EID: 0031899825     PISSN: 00221899     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/515269     Document Type: Article

References (15)

1. Hasegawa K, Huang J, Wands JR, Obata H, Liang J. Association of hepatitis B viral precore mutations with fulminant hepatitis B in Japan. Virology 1991:185:460-3.
2. Liang TJ, Hasegawa K, Rimon N, Wands J, Ben-Porath E. A hepatitis B virus mutant associated with an epidemic of fulminant hepatitis. N Engl J Med 1991;324:1705-9.
3. Sato S, Suzuki K, Akahane Y, et al. Hepatitis B virus strains with mutations in the core promoter in patients with fulminant hepatitis. Ann Intern Med 1995:122:241-8.
4. Pollicino T, Zanetti A, Cacciola I, et al. Pre-S2 defective hepatitis B virus infection in patients with fulminant hepatitis. Hepatology 1997;26: 495-9.
5. Hasegawa K, Huang J, Rogers SA, Blum HE, Liang TJ. Enhanced replication of a hepatitis B virus mutant associated with an epidemic of fulminant hepatitis. J Virol 1994;68:1651-9.
6. Günther S, Li B, Miska S, Krüger D, Meisel H, Will H. A novel method for efficient amplification of whole hepatitis B virus genomes permits rapid functional analysis and reveals deletion mutants in immunosuppressed patients. J Virol 1995; 69:5437-44.
7. Galibert F, Mandart E, Fitoussi F, Tiollais P, Charney P. Nucleotide sequence of the hepatitis B virus genome (subtype ayw) cloned in E. coli. Nature 1979;281:646-50.
8. Cullen B, Malim M. Secreted placental alkaline phosphatase as a eukaryotic reporter gene. Methods Enzymol 1992;216:362-8.
9. Salfeld J, Pfaff E, Noah M, Schaller H. Antigenic determinants and functional domains in core antigen and e antigen from hepatitis B virus. J Virol 1989;63:798-808.
10. Ferrari C, Bertoletti A, Penna A, et al. Identification of immunodominant T cell epitopes of the hepatitis B virus nucleocapsid antigen. J Clin Invest 1991;88:214-22.
11. von Weizsaecker F, Pult I, Geiss K, Wirth S, Blum HE. Selective transmission of variant genomes from mother to infant in neonatal fulminant hepatitis B. Hepatology 1995;21:8-13.
12. Karayiannis P, Alexopoulou A, Hadziyannis S, et al. Fulminant hepatitis associated with hepatitis B virus e antigen-negative infection: importance of host factors. Hepatology 1995;22:1628-34.
13. Buckwold V, Xu Z, Chen M, Yen T, Ou J. Effects of a naturally occurring mutation in the hepatitis B virus basal core promoter on precore gene expression and viral replication. J Virology 1996:70:5845-51.
14. Tanaka S, Yoshiba M, lino S, et al. A common-source outbreak of fulminant hepatitis B in hemodialysis patients induced by a precore mutant. Kidney Int 1995;48:1972-8.
15. Zuckerman MA, Hawkins AE, Briggs M, et al. Investigation of hepatitis B virus transmission in a health care setting: application of direct sequence analysis. J Infect Dis 1995; 172:1080-3.