Latent hepatitis B virus infection in healthy individuals with antibodies to hepatitis B core antigen

Hepatology

Volumn 31, Issue 2, 2000, Pages 488-495

  Marusawa, Hiroyuki ^a   Uemoto, Shinji ^a   Hijikata, Makoto ^a   Ueda, Yoshihide ^a   Tanaka, Koichi ^a   Shimotohno, Kunitada ^a   Chiba, Tsutomu ^a  

^a KYOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CIRCULAR DNA; HEPATITIS B CORE ANTIBODY; HEPATITIS B CORE ANTIGEN; HEPATITIS B SURFACE ANTIBODY; HEPATITIS B(E) ANTIBODY; HEPATITIS B(E) ANTIGEN; NUCLEOTIDE; RNA; VIRUS DNA;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENZYME IMMUNOASSAY; FEMALE; HEPATITIS B; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; INFECTION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SOUTHERN BLOTTING; VIRUS GENOME; VIRUS REPLICATION;

EID: 0033952115     PISSN: 02709139     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/hep.510310232     Document Type: Article

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