Quantitative analysis of wild-type and precore mutant hepatitis B virus in carriers

Hepatology Research

Volumn 23, Issue 1, 2002, Pages 48-54

  Tsugeno, Hirofumi ^a   Yamada, Gotaro ^b   Kinoshita, Moritoshi ^c   Shimomura, Hiroyuki ^a   Iwasaki, Yoshiaki ^a   Tsuji, Takao ^d  

^a OKAYAMA UNIVERSITY MEDICAL SCHOOL   (Japan)

^b KAWASAKI MEDICAL SCHOOL   (Japan)

^c OTSUKA PHARMACEUTICAL CO LTD   (Japan)

^d OKAYAMA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Asymptomatic healthy carrier; Chronic hepatitis B; Competitive mutation site specific assay; Competitive wild type sequence specific assay; Polymerase chain reaction

Indexed keywords

ADENINE; GUANINE; HEPATITIS B SURFACE ANTIBODY; HEPATITIS B SURFACE ANTIGEN; HEPATITIS B(E) ANTIBODY; HEPATITIS B(E) ANTIGEN; NUCLEOTIDE; PRIMER DNA; VIRUS DNA;

ADULT; CHRONIC HEPATITIS; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; GENE MUTATION; HEPATITIS B VIRUS; HUMAN; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; REVIEW; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SEROCONVERSION; SEROLOGY; VIRUS CARRIER; VIRUS MUTANT; WILD TYPE;

EID: 0036590556     PISSN: 13866346     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1386-6346(01)00156-5     Document Type: Article

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