Hepatitis B virus: significance of naturally occurring mutants.

doi:10.1159/000150294

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Hepatitis B virus: significance of naturally occurring mutants.

Intervirology - 1 Jan 1993

Blum H E

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Mutations of viral genomes are normal biological events and result in the coexistence of viral genotypes in infected individuals ('quasispecies'). Hepatitis B virus (HBV) and the related animal hepadnaviruses have a mutation rate which is intermediate between DNA and RNA viruses because they repl...

Topics

Animals
Base Sequence
DNA, Viral
Hepatitis B
Hepatitis B virus
Humans
Molecular Sequence Data
Mutation

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