Novel mutation in hepatitis B virus preventing HBeAg production and resembling primate strains

Journal of General Virology

Volumn 87, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 307-310

  Ingman, Mikael ^a   Lindqvist, B ^a   Kidd Ljunggren, K ^a  

^a LUND UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HEPATITIS B(E) ANTIGEN; LYSINE; RNA;

ANTIBODY PRODUCTION; ANTIGEN EXPRESSION; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DOWNSTREAM PROCESSING; FEMALE; FRAMESHIFT MUTATION; GENE INSERTION; GENOMIC INSTABILITY; HEPATITIS B VIRUS; HUMAN; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIMATE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN SECONDARY STRUCTURE; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; STOP CODON; VIRUS ISOLATION; VIRUS MUTATION; VIRUS STRAIN;

ANIMALS; CARRIER STATE; HEPATITIS B; HEPATITIS B CORE ANTIGENS; HEPATITIS B E ANTIGENS; HEPATITIS B VIRUS; HUMANS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MUTATION; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIMATES; RNA, VIRAL; VIRAL LOAD;

HEPATITIS B VIRUS; PRIMATES;

EID: 31644434781     PISSN: 00221317     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1099/vir.0.81562-0     Document Type: Article

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