Detection of precore-mutant hepatitis B virus genome in patients with acute and fulminant hepatitis using mutation site-specific assay (MSSA)

Hepato-Gastroenterology

Volumn 49, Issue 47, 2002, Pages 1352-1356

  Shiraki, Katsuya ^a   Hamada, Minoru ^a   Sugimoto, Kazushi ^a   Ito, Takeshi ^a   Yamanaka, Takenari ^a   Wagayama, Hidetaka ^a   Shimizu, Atsuya ^a   Makino, Yukirou ^a   Takase, Koujirou ^a   Nakano, Takeshi ^a   Tameda, Yukihiko ^a  

^a MIE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

Author keywords

Acute hepatitis; Fulminant hepatitis; HBV DNA; Mutation site specific assay; Precore region

Indexed keywords

GENE PRODUCT; HEPATITIS B(E) ANTIGEN; PRIMER DNA; VIRUS DNA;

ACUTE HEPATITIS; ADULT; AGED; ANTIGEN DETECTION; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE SEVERITY; FEMALE; HEPATITIS; HEPATITIS B; HEPATITIS B VIRUS; HUMAN; MALE; MUTATIONAL ANALYSIS; POINT MUTATION; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; VALIDATION PROCESS; VIRUS CORE; VIRUS DETECTION; VIRUS GENOME; VIRUS MUTANT; VIRUS MUTATION; VIRUS STRAIN;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; FEMALE; GENOME, VIRAL; HEPATITIS B; HEPATITIS B VIRUS; HUMANS; MALE; MUTAGENESIS, SITE-DIRECTED; PROGNOSIS;

EID: 0036376819     PISSN: 01726390     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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