Mutations in the basic core promotor and the precore region of hepatitis B virus ad their selection in children with fulminant and chronic hepatitis B

Hepatology

Volumn 29, Issue 4, 1999, Pages 1252-1258

  Friedt, Michael ^a   Gerner, Patrick ^b   Lausch, Ekkehart ^a   Trubel, Hubert ^b   Zabel, Bernhard ^a   Wirth, Stefan ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER MAINZ   (Germany)

^b Children's Hospital   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALPHA INTERFERON; HEPATITIS B CORE ANTIGEN; VIRUS DNA;

ADOLESCENT; ARTICLE; CHILD; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DNA DETERMINATION; FEMALE; GENE SEQUENCE; GENETIC SELECTION; GENOTYPE; HEPATITIS B; HEPATITIS B VIRUS; HUMAN; INFANT; MALE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SEROCONVERSION; VERTICAL TRANSMISSION; VIRUS DETECTION; VIRUS MUTATION; VIRUS PATHOGENESIS;

EID: 0032922415     PISSN: 02709139     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/hep.510290418     Document Type: Article

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