Article
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 i...
Topics
- Animals
- Animals, Newborn
- Base Sequence
- DNA, Viral
- Ducks
- Hepatitis B
- Hepatitis B virus
- Hepatitis, Viral, Animal
- Molecular Probes
- Molecular Sequence Data
- Mutation
- Polymerase Chain Reaction