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Acute hepatitis B due to immune-escape mutations in a naturally immune patient.
Acta gastro-enterologica Belgica - 1 Jun 2014
Kaymakoglu Sabahattin, Baran Bulent, Onel Derya, Badur Selim, Atamer Tanju, Akyuz Filiz
Abstract excerpt
Incidence of hepatitis B virus infection (HBV) has been greatly reduced globally after the introduction of universal vaccination programs. However, another potential threat was noticed almost 2 decades ago, which is the selection of antibody escape HBV strains. Antibody or immune escape strains of HBV carry mutations in the S gene which encodes "a" determinant region located at amino acid positions 124 to 149....
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