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Association of a precore genomic variant of hepatitis B virus with fulminant hepatitis.
Hepatology (Baltimore, Md.) - 1 Aug 1991
Carman W F, Fagan E A, Hadziyannis S, Karayiannis P, Tassopoulos N C, Williams R, Thomas H C
Abstract excerpt
A variant of hepatitis B virus has been described recently in HBsAg+ Mediterranean patients who lack HBeAg and who have an unusual and severe form of chronic hepatitis. This variant is unable to produce HBeAg because of the presence of a novel translational stop codon at the end of the precore region of the genome. By direct sequencing of DNA, generated by the polymerase chain reaction, we have evaluated the...
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