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Clinical significance of hepatitis B virus genotypes, variants, and mutants.
Clinics in liver disease - 1 May 2004
Wai Chun-Tao, Fontana Robert J
Abstract excerpt
Emerging evidence suggests that hepatitis B virus (HBV) genotypes may influence the rate of spontaneous and interferon-induced hepatitis B e antigen (HBeAg) seroconversion as well as the natural history of liver disease. In contrast, the dinical significance of precore and core promoter variants associated with HBeAg negative liver disease is less certain in light of the many competing host and virologic factors...
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