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The development of a mutation in the precore region of the hepatitis B virus in a chronically infected individual.
Gastroenterology - 1 Jan 1994
Lee J H, Di Bisceglie A M, Baker B L, Zeldis J B
Abstract excerpt
Over a 15-year period, a white American woman was observed to have progressive hepatitis B that underwent hepatitis Be antigen (HBeAg) positivity to anti-HBe positivity with development of cirrhosis. This patient was found to have a non-sense mutation in the second codon of the pre-C region of the hepatitis B virus genome after her anti-HBe seroconversion but not in her serum when she was HBeAg+. As controls,...
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