Article
Latency and reactivation of a precore mutant hepatitis B virus in a chronically infected patient.
Journal of hepatology - 1 Nov 1990
Raimondo G, Stemler M, Schneider R, Wildner G, Squadrito G, Will H
Abstract excerpt
In human patients infected with hepatitis B virus (HBV) seroconversion from HBe to anti-HBe often signals virus elimination. Occasionally, a second viremic phase is observed which may be due to superinfection with a variant or reactivation of a latent virus. To differentiate between these two pos...
Topics
- Antigens, Viral
- Base Sequence
- Chronic Disease
- DNA, Viral
- Down-Regulation
- Gene Expression Regulation, Viral
- Hepatitis B
- Hepatitis B e Antigens
- Hepatitis B virus
- Humans
- Liver
- Molecular Sequence Data
- Mutation
- Reaction Time
- Viral Core Proteins
- Virus Activation