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Viral Adaptation to Host Immune Responses Occurs in Chronic Hepatitis B Virus (HBV) Infection, and Adaptation Is Greatest in HBV e Antigen-Negative Disease
10 Nov 2011
Abstract excerpt
Hepatitis B virus (HBV)-specific T-cell responses are important in the natural history of HBV infection. The number of known HBV-specific T-cell epitopes is limited, and it is not clear whether viral evolution occurs in chronic HBV infection. We aimed to identify novel HBV T-cell epitopes by examining the relationship between HBV sequence variation and the human leukocyte antigen (HLA) type in a large prospective...
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