Prolonged hepatitis after acute infection with genotype H hepatitis B virus

Internal Medicine

Volumn 46, Issue 22, 2007, Pages 1847-1851

  Chihara, Norio ^a   Arase, Yasuji ^a   Suzuki, Fumitaka ^a   Suzuki, Yoshiyuki ^a   Kobayashi, Masahiro ^a   Akuta, Norio ^a   Hosaka, Tetsuya ^a   Sezaki, Hitomi ^a   Yatsuji, Hiromi ^a   Kawamura, Yusuke ^a   Kobayashi, Mariko ^a   Watahiki, Sachiyo ^a   Ikeda, Kenji ^a   Kumada, Hiromitsu ^a  

^a TORANOMON HOSPITAL   (Japan)

Author keywords

Acute hepatitis B; HBV genotype H; Prolonged infection

Indexed keywords

ALANINE AMINOTRANSFERASE; ASPARTATE AMINOTRANSFERASE; BETA INTERFERON; COLLAGEN FIBER; DNA POLYMERASE; HEPATITIS B SURFACE ANTIGEN; HEPATITIS B(E) ANTIGEN; IMMUNOGLOBULIN M ANTIBODY; LAMIVUDINE; VIRUS DNA;

ACUTE HEPATITIS; ADULT; ALANINE AMINOTRANSFERASE BLOOD LEVEL; ARTICLE; ASPARTATE AMINOTRANSFERASE BLOOD LEVEL; CASE REPORT; DEPRESSION; DISEASE COURSE; DRUG DOSE REDUCTION; DRUG WITHDRAWAL; FATIGUE; GENOTYPE; HEPATITIS B; HEPATITIS B VIRUS; HUMAN; LIVER BIOPSY; LYMPHOCYTIC INFILTRATION; MALE; NEUTROPENIA; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; REMISSION; RESTRICTION FRAGMENT LENGTH POLYMORPHISM; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; VIRUS LOAD; VIRUS MUTATION; VIRUS STRAIN;

ACUTE DISEASE; ANTIVIRAL AGENTS; GENOTYPE; HEPATITIS B; HEPATITIS B VIRUS; HUMANS; INTERFERONS; LAMIVUDINE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; SALVAGE THERAPY; TREATMENT FAILURE;

EID: 36749090499     PISSN: 09182918     EISSN: 13497235     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2169/internalmedicine.46.0163     Document Type: Article

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