HBe seroconversion and HBs mutation among Japanese hepatitis B virus carriers

Hepatology Research

Volumn 20, Issue 2, 2001, Pages 172-181

  Ojima, Toshiaki ^a   Niitsuma, Hirofumi ^a   Shan, Hong ^a   Cervantes, Julieta G ^a   Nagasaki, Futoshi ^a   Kikuchi, Kumiko ^a   Suzuki, Chiaki ^a   Ueno, Yoshiyuki ^a   Ishii, Motoyasu ^b   Kobayashi, Koju ^c   Shimosegawa, Tooru ^a  

^a TOHOKU UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

^b Mizusawa General Hospital   (Japan)

^c TOHOKU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Genotype change; HBe seroconversion; Hepatitis B virus

Indexed keywords

AMINO ACID; HEPATITIS B ANTIBODY; HEPATITIS B(E) ANTIBODY; ISOLEUCINE; NUCLEOTIDE; THREONINE; VIRUS PROTEIN; VITRONECTIN; ALANINE AMINOTRANSFERASE; HEPATITIS B(E) ANTIGEN; VIRUS DNA;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; BLOOD SAMPLING; CODON; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; GENE IDENTIFICATION; GENE MUTATION; GENETIC ANALYSIS; GENETIC SUSCEPTIBILITY; GENOTYPE; GERMANY; HEPATITIS B; HEPATITIS B VIRUS; HUMAN; JAPAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SEROCONVERSION; SEROPREVALENCE; SYMPTOMATOLOGY; VIRUS CARRIER; VIRUS GENE; VIRUS MUTATION; ALANINE AMINOTRANSFERASE BLOOD LEVEL; CHRONIC HEPATITIS; DISEASE PREDISPOSITION; HUMAN TISSUE; LIVER BIOPSY; PHYLOGENY; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PREVALENCE; VIRUS ISOLATION;

EID: 0035718841     PISSN: 13866346     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1386-6346(00)00134-0     Document Type: Article

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