Effect of variation in the common 'a' determinant on the antigenicity of hepatitis B surface antigen

Journal of Medical Virology

Volumn 60, Issue 2, 2000, Pages 113-121

  Seddigh Tonekaboni, Siamak ^a   Waters, Jennifer A ^a   Jeffers, Sarah ^a   Gehrke, Ralph ^b   Ofenloch, Beatus ^b   Horsch, Andrea ^b   Hess, Georg ^b   Thomas, Howard C ^a   Karayiannis, Peter ^a  

^a IMPERIAL COLLEGE SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United Kingdom)

^b F HOFFMANN LA ROCHE LTD   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Diagnosis; Immunoassays; Variant hepatitis B virus

Indexed keywords

HEPATITIS B SURFACE ANTIGEN;

AMINO ACID SUBSTITUTION; ANTIGENIC VARIATION; ARTICLE; BINDING SITE; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; EPITOPE MAPPING; HEPATITIS B VIRUS; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; MOLECULAR CLONING; SITE DIRECTED MUTAGENESIS; VIRUS ENVELOPE; VIRUS NEUTRALIZATION;

DNA VIRUSES; HEPATITIS B VIRUS; PICHIA PASTORIS;

EID: 0033986638     PISSN: 01466615     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1096-9071(200002)60:2<113::AID-JMV2>3.0.CO;2-0     Document Type: Article

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