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Significance and relevance of serum preS1 antigen detection in wild-type and variant hepatitis B virus (HBV) infections.
Archives of virology. Supplementum - 1 Jan 1993
Petit M A, Capel F, Gerken G, Dubanchet S, Bréchot C, Trépo C
Abstract excerpt
These studies assessed whether the serum expression of preS1 antigen could be a useful HBV marker for monitoring the progress of antiviral therapy in the treatment of chronic active hepatitis B (CAH-B) virus infections. Our findings indicate that: 1) the rearrangements we observed in the preS region of mutated HBV DNA molecules during chronic infection did not effect the preS1 sequence (21-47) critical for HBV...
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