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Clinical implications of evolutionary patterns of homologous, full-length hepatitis B virus quasispecies in different hosts after perinatal infection.
Journal of clinical microbiology - 1 May 2014
Liu Feng, Yu De-Min, Huang Su-Yuan, Yu Jia-Lun, Zhang Dong-Hua, Gong Qi-Ming, Zhang Xin-Xin
Abstract excerpt
Chronic hepatitis B virus (HBV) infection via perinatal transmission is common in the Asia-Pacific region, but related quasispecies (QS) characteristics are not yet defined. To investigate the homologous, full-length HBV QS after perinatal infection and their clinical implications, five pairs of mother-daughter patients with chronic HBV infection (one patient with liver cirrhosis, one with immune tolerance, and...
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