Hepatitis B virus core promoter mutations in patients with chronic hepatitis B and hepatocellular carcinoma in Bucharest, Romania

Hepatitis Monthly

Volumn 14, Issue 10, 2014, Pages

  Niculescu, Marius ^d   Dinu, Andrei Antoniu ^b  

^a CAROL DAVILA UNIVERSITY OF MEDICINE AND PHARMACY   (Romania)

^b FUNDENI CLINICAL INSTITUTE   (Romania)

^c 'Gheorghe Mihoc Caius Iacob' Institute of Statistical Mathematics and Applied Mathematics   (Romania)

^d V Babes National Institute of Pathology   (Romania)

Author keywords

Genotype; Hepatitis B Virus; Hepatocellular carcinoma; Mutations

Indexed keywords

VIRUS RNA;

ADULT; ARTICLE; CHEMILUMINESCENCE IMMUNOASSAY; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; DISEASE CARRIER; DNA SEQUENCE; ENZYME LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; FEMALE; GENE MUTATION; GENOTYPING TECHNIQUE; HEPATITIS B; HEPATITIS B VIRUS; HEPATITIS B VIRUS GENOTYPE A; HEPATITIS B VIRUS GENOTYPE D; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; LIVER CELL CARCINOMA; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NONHUMAN; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PREVALENCE; PROMOTER REGION; ROMANIA; VIRUS CORE;

EID: 84908231514     PISSN: 1735143X     EISSN: 17353408     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5812/hepatmon.22072     Document Type: Article

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