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Differences in sequences between HBV-relaxed circular DNA and covalently closed circular DNA.
Emerging microbes & infections - 21 Jun 2017
Rybicka Magda, Woziwodzka Anna, Romanowski Tomasz, Stalke Piotr, Dręczewski Marcin, Bielawski Krzysztof Piotr
Abstract excerpt
The hepatitis B virus (HBV) genome exists in two forms: circular covalently closed DNA (cccDNA) and relaxed circular DNA (RCDNA). Here, we investigated the presence of differences in the sequences of both forms in paired samples of serum and liver tissue. The serum and liver biopsy samples were collected at the same time from 67 chronically infected patients. The genotyping of the RCDNA and cccDNA was performed...
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