Persistent viremia after recovery from self-limited acute hepatitis B

Hepatology

Volumn 27, Issue 5, 1998, Pages 1377-1382

  Yotsuyanagi, Hiroshi ^a   Yasuda, Kiyomi ^b   Iino, Shiro ^b   Moriya, Kyoji ^a   Shintani, Yoshizumi ^a   Fujie, Hajime ^a   Tsutsumi, Takeya ^a   Kimura, Satoshi ^a   Koike, Kazuhiko ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^b ST MARIANNA UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HEPATITIS B SURFACE ANTIGEN; IMMUNOGLOBULIN G ANTIBODY; VIRUS DNA;

ADULT; ANTIGEN ANTIBODY COMPLEX; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CONVALESCENCE; DISEASE DURATION; FEMALE; HEPATITIS B; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; HUMAN TISSUE; IMMUNOPRECIPITATION; MALE; PERSISTENT VIRUS INFECTION; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEROCONVERSION; SOUTHERN BLOTTING; VIREMIA; VIRUS REPLICATION; VIRUS TRANSMISSION;

ACUTE DISEASE; ADULT; ANTIGEN-ANTIBODY COMPLEX; DNA, VIRAL; FEMALE; HEPATITIS B; HEPATITIS B VIRUS; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 0031971087     PISSN: 02709139     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/hep.510270526     Document Type: Article

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