Quantitative DNA analysis of low-level hepatitis B viremia in two patients with serologically negative chronic hepatitis B

Journal of Medical Virology

Volumn 58, Issue 4, 1999, Pages 325-331

  Saito, Takafumi ^a   Shinzawa, Haruhide ^a   Uchida, Toshikazu ^b   Kawamata, Osamu ^c   Honma, Sayaka ^a   Watanabe, Hisayoshi ^a   Shao, Li ^a   Saito, Koji ^a   Togashi, Hitoshi ^a   Takahashi, Tsuneo ^a  

^a YAMAGATA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b NIHON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

^c SRL INC   (Japan)

Author keywords

HBV mutant; PCR; Quantitation; Silent B; X gene

Indexed keywords

VIRUS DNA;

ADULT; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; DNA DETERMINATION; FEMALE; HEPATITIS B; HUMAN; MALE; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; QUANTITATIVE ASSAY; VERTICAL TRANSMISSION; VIREMIA; VIRUS REPLICATION; VIRUS TRANSMISSION;

ADULT; ALANINE TRANSAMINASE; BASE SEQUENCE; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; DISEASE TRANSMISSION, VERTICAL; DNA, VIRAL; FEMALE; HEPATITIS B; HEPATITIS B CORE ANTIGENS; HEPATITIS B SURFACE ANTIGENS; HEPATITIS B VIRUS; HEPATITIS B, CHRONIC; HUMANS; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; LIVER; MALE; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, NUCLEIC ACID; VIREMIA;

DNA VIRUSES; HEPATITIS B VIRUS; RNA VIRUSES;

EID: 0032803321     PISSN: 01466615     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1096-9071(199908)58:4<325::AID-JMV2>3.0.CO;2-L     Document Type: Article

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