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[Molecular virology of the hepatitis B virus].
Enfermedades infecciosas y microbiologia clinica - 1 May 2008
Rodríguez-Frias Francisco, Jardi Rosendo
Abstract excerpt
The hepatitis B virus (HBV) belongs to the hepadnavirus family. The genome of the virus, formed by a small DNA molecule with 3,200 base pairs, has 4 strongly overlapping protein coding regions: ORF preS/S, corresponding to the envelope proteins that constitute the HBV surface antigen (HBsAg); ORF preC/C, which encodes the viral capsid component (core antigen or HBcAg) and a non-structural protein that, after...
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