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Occult hepatitis B virus infection in chronic liver disease: full-length genome and analysis of mutant surface promoter.
Gastroenterology - 1 Nov 2004
Chaudhuri Vaishali, Tayal Ruchi, Nayak Baibaswata, Acharya Subrat Kumar, Panda Subrat Kumar
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BACKGROUND AND AIMS: Genome sequence of hepatitis B virus (HBV) from occult chronic infection is scarce. Fifty-six (9.4%) of 591 patients seronegative for hepatitis B surface antigen (HBsAg) with chronic liver disease were positive for HBV DNA. The complete HBV genome from 9 of these patients (S1...
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