Prevalence of hepatitis B virus precore stop codon mutations in chronically infected children

World Journal of Gastroenterology

Volumn 12, Issue 14, 2006, Pages 2235-2238

  Wintermeyer, Philip ^a   Gerner, Patrick ^a   Gehring, Stephan ^b   Karimi, Afshin ^a   Wirth, Stefan ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WITTEN HERDECKE   (Germany)

^b JOHANNES GUTENBERG UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Children; HBeAg minus variants; Hepatitis B; Precore mutants

Indexed keywords

ADENINE; GUANINE; HEPATITIS B(E) ANTIBODY; HEPATITIS B(E) ANTIGEN;

ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE COURSE; EUROPE; FEMALE; GENE MUTATION; GENE SEQUENCE; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENOTYPE; HEPATITIS B; HEPATITIS B VIRUS; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NONHUMAN; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; POPULATION RESEARCH; PREVALENCE; SCHOOL CHILD; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SEROCONVERSION; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; STOP CODON; VIRUS CORE; VIRUS MUTANT; VIRUS STRAIN;

EID: 33646261383     PISSN: 10079327     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3748/wjg.v12.i14.2235     Document Type: Article

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