Article
Detection of precore/core-mutant hepatitis B virus genome in patients with acute or fulminant hepatitis without serological markers for recent HBV infection.
Journal of hepatology - 1 Jul 1993
Uchida T, Aye T T, Becker S O, Hirashima M, Shikata T, Komine F, Moriyama M, Arakawa Y, Takase S, Mima S
Abstract excerpt
To confirm the possibility that some hepatitis B virus (HBV) variants do not induce HB s antigen (HBsAg), anti-HB core antibody (anti-HBc) and anti-HBc IgM in a transient infection, polymerase chain reaction (PCR) was performed in 20 patients with acute hepatitis and 7 patients with fulminant hep...
Topics
- Acute Disease
- Adult
- Amino Acid Sequence
- Base Sequence
- DNA, Viral
- Female
- Genome, Viral
- Hepatitis Antibodies
- Hepatitis B
- Hepatitis B Core Antigens
- Hepatitis B Surface Antigens
- Hepatitis B virus
- Humans
- Immunoglobulin M
- Middle Aged