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Molecular characterization of envelope antigenic variants of hepatitis B virus from Spain.
The Journal of infectious diseases - 1 Nov 1994
Wallace L A, Echevarria J E, Echevarria J M, Carman W F
Abstract excerpt
In a survey of hepatitis B virus (HBV) subtypes using one set of monoclonal typing antibodies, 96.6% of the samples were ad or ay and 3.3% (31) were untypeable. Using two additional antibody panels, 23 samples were ay and ad. Six samples required a third panel to be typed as ay. One sample was not typeable. These last 7 samples were nonreactive or had low reactivity with some antibodies to the common a...
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