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Wild-type precore and core promoter sequences in patients with acute self-limited or chronic hepatitis B.
Scandinavian journal of gastroenterology - 1 Jan 2004
Kobayashi M, Arase Y, Ikeda K, Tsubota A, Suzuki Y, Saitoh S, Kobayashi M, Suzuki F, Akuta N, Hosaka T, Someya T, Matsuda M, Sato J, Miyakawa Y, Kumada H
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BACKGROUND: Mutations in the precore region and core promoter were compared between patients with acute and chronic hepatitis B. METHODS: There were 69 patients with acute self-limited hepatitis B and 210 with chronic hepatitis B who had been followed for > 15 years. The hepatitis B virus (HBV) of genotypes A, B and C was detected in 14 (23%), 8 (13%) and 28 (45%) of the patients with acute self-limited...
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