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Viral deletions among healthy young Chinese adults with occult hepatitis B virus infection.
Virus research - 1 Jan 2012
Chen Si-Jia, Zhao Ying-Xin, Fang Yong, Xu Wei-Zhen, Ma Yan-Xiu, Song Zhi-Wei, Teng Xu, Gu Hong-Xi
Abstract excerpt
To investigate the mechanism and prognosis of occult hepatitis B virus (HBV) infection (OBI) at a molecular level among healthy young adults, the presence of HBV DNA in 1176 sera samples collected from healthy young people after neonatal vaccination was assessed by nested polymerase chain reaction (PCR) using specific primers designed for the X and S regions of the HBV genome. Full-length HBV DNA from 9 patients...
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