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Hepatitis B virus pre-S/S variants in liver diseases.
World journal of gastroenterology - 14 Apr 2018
Chen Bing-Fang
Abstract excerpt
Chronic hepatitis B is a global health problem. The clinical outcomes of chronic hepatitis B infection include asymptomatic carrier state, chronic hepatitis (CH), liver cirrhosis (LC), and hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC). Because of the spontaneous error rate inherent to viral reverse transcriptase, the hepatitis B virus (HBV) genome evolves during the course of infection under the antiviral pressure of host...
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