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Re-appraisal of old and new diagnostic tools in the current management of chronic hepatitis B.
Liver international : official journal of the International Association for the Study of the Liver - 1 Aug 2014
Bessone Fernando
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Hepatitis B virus (HBV) is a very complex and intricate DNA structure associated with a particular genomic organization and replication cycle. However, many years of investigations allowed clarification of the real HBV natural history, through a deeper knowledge of the behavior of HBV antigens and viral structures. Several of the old diagnostic tools, such as HBV surface antigen (HBsAg) and HBV e antigen (HBeAg)...
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