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Functional cure of hepatitis B requires silencing covalently closed circular and integrated hepatitis B virus DNA
14 Sept 2022
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Chronic hepatitis B virus (HBV) infection remains a major global health problem. Hepatitis B surface antigen (HBsAg) loss has been accepted as the definition of a functional HBV cure. Recent studies found that while covalently closed circular DNA (cccDNA) is the predominant source of HBsAg in hepatitis B e antigen-positive (HBeAg-positive) patients, integrated HBV DNA (iDNA) is the main source in HBeAg-negative...
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