Treatment of chronic woodchuck hepatitis virus infection in the Eastern woodchuck (Marmota monax) with nucleoside analogues is predictive of therapy for chronic hepatitis B virus infection in humans

Hepatology

Volumn 31, Issue 5, 2000, Pages 1165-1175

  Korba, Brent E ^a   Cote, Paul ^a   Hornbuckle, William ^b   Tennant, Bud C ^b   Gerin, John L ^a  

^a GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Department of Obstetrics Gynecology   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADENINE 5' ARABINOSIDE MONOPHOSPHATE; FAMCICLOVIR; LAMIVUDINE; NUCLEOSIDE ANALOG; RIBAVIRIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; VIDARABINE; ZIDOVUDINE;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ANTIVIRAL ACTIVITY; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; HEPATITIS B; HEPATITIS B VIRUS; HEPATITIS VIRUS; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; VIREMIA; VIRUS REPLICATION; WOODCHUCK;

EID: 0034011592     PISSN: 02709139     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1053/he.2000.5982     Document Type: Article

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