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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 possibilities we investigated the nucleotide sequences of virus populations from sera of a chronically infected patient...
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