Isolation, characterization and biological significance of hepatitis B virus mutants from serum of a patient with immunologically negative HBV infection

Journal of Hepatology

Volumn 33, Issue 5, 2000, Pages 799-811

  Schories, Marcus ^a   Peters, Thomas ^a   Rasenack, Jens ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FREIBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Core deletion mutant; HBsAg mutant; HBV DNA

Indexed keywords

EPITOPE;

ADULT; ANTIGEN EXPRESSION; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; GENE DELETION; GENETIC TRANSFECTION; GENOTYPE; HEPATITIS B; HEPATITIS B VIRUS; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; KIDNEY GRAFT; MALE; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; POINT MUTATION; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; SEROTYPING; VIRUS CHARACTERIZATION; VIRUS CORE; VIRUS ISOLATION;

EID: 0033758780     PISSN: 01688278     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0168-8278(00)80313-X     Document Type: Article

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