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Coinfection study of precore mutant and wild-type hepatitis B-like virus in ducklings.
Hepatology (Baltimore, Md.) - 1 Mar 1994
Chuang W L, Omata M, Ehata T, Yokosuka O, Hosoda K, Imazeki F, Ohto M
Abstract excerpt
The precore mutant hepatitis B virus often emerges from a mixed infection with combined wild-type and precore mutant viruses. Nevertheless, the precore mutant does not seem to be an evolutionarily favored strain. To investigate the interaction between wild-type and precore mutant hepadnaviruses in an animal model of perinatal transmission, we used an e antigen-defective mutant duck hepatitis B virus with...
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