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Occult hepatitis B infection: an evolutionary scenario.

Virology journal - 11 Dec 2008

van Hemert Formijn J, Zaaijer Hans L, Berkhout Ben, Lukashov Vladimir V

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BACKGROUND: Occult or latent hepatitis B virus (HBV) infection is defined as infection with detectable HBV DNA and undetectable surface antigen (HBsAg) in patients' blood. The cause of an overt HBV infection becoming an occult one is unknown. To gain insight into the mechanism of the development of occult infection, we compared the full-length HBV genome from a blood donor carrying an occult infection (d4) with...

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PMID: 19077239
DOI: 10.1186/1743-422X-5-146
PMCID: PMC2637267

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