Analysis of the entire nucleotide sequence of hepatitis B virus: Characteristics of HBeAg-positive asymptomatic carriers, HBeAb positive asymptomatic carriers and patients with liver cirrhosis

Hepatology Research

Volumn 23, Issue 4, 2002, Pages 251-264

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

^a TOHOKU UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

^b TOHOKU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c Mizusawa General Hospital   (Japan)

Author keywords

HBeAG positive asymptomatic carriers; Hepatitis B virus; Liver cirrhosis; Nucleotide substitution

Indexed keywords

CORE PROTEIN; HEPATITIS B(E) ANTIBODY; ISOLEUCINE; LEUCINE; SERINE; THREONINE;

ADULT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE COURSE; FEMALE; GENOTYPE; HEPATITIS B; HEPATITIS B VIRUS; HUMAN; LIVER CIRRHOSIS; MALE; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; VIRUS MUTATION;

EID: 0041480735     PISSN: 13866346     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1386-6346(01)00185-1     Document Type: Article

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