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Development of a dual channel detection system for pan-genotypic simultaneous quantification of hepatitis B and delta viruses.
Emerging microbes & infections - 1 Dec 2024
Liu Yongzhen, Maya Stephanie, Carver Sebastian, O'Connell Aoife K, Tseng Anna E, Gertje Hans P, Seneca Kathleen, Nahass Ronald G, Crossland Nicholas A, Ploss Alexander
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Hepatitis B virus (HBV) infection remains a major public health problem and, in associated co-infection with hepatitis delta virus (HDV), causes the most severe viral hepatitis and accelerated liver disease progression. As a defective satellite RNA virus, HDV can only propagate in the presence of HBV infection, which makes HBV DNA and HDV RNA the standard biomarkers for monitoring the virological response upon...
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