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Detection of hepatitis B virus core mutants by PCR-RFLP in chronically infected patients.
Journal of virological methods - 15 Sept 2004
Barros M F, Rodrigues P A, Matias S R, Carreira L M, Machado-Caetano J A
Abstract excerpt
HBV chronic infection is an important health problem. The HBV core antigen carries several epitopes for T and B cell recognition and the immune response is crucial for determining the outcome of viral infection. Using PCR-RFLP several point mutations were detected in the HBV core ORF of HBV extracted from the serum of 140 chronically infected patients and 86 samples from another 37 patients followed-up in a...
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