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Selection of hepatitis B virus variants with aminoacid substitutions inside the core antigen during interferon-alpha therapy.
Journal of medical virology - 1 Dec 2000
Radecke K, Protzer U, Trippler M, Meyer Zum Büschenfelde K H, Gerken G
Abstract excerpt
The hepatitis B virus (HBV) core antigen carries many epitopes relevant for B and T cell response that show aminoacid variation during viral infection. In a longitudinal analysis, sequential serum samples of 15 patients that suffered from chronic HBV infection were collected before, during, and after high-dose IFN-alpha treatment. The HBV preCore/Core (preC/C) sequence of the selected samples in each patient was...
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