Article
Interferon-alpha 2a for chronic hepatitis B with e antigen or antibody:comparable antiviral effects on wild-type virus and precore mutant.
Journal of viral hepatitis - 1 Jan 1995
Aikawa T, Kanai K, Kako M, Kawasaki T, Hino K, Iwabuchi S, Tsubouchi H, Takehira Y, Tsuda F, Okamoto H
Abstract excerpt
Recombinant interferon-alpha 2a (IFN-alpha 2a) in a total dose of 702 MU was given to 31 patients: nine with wild-type hepatitis B virus (HBV) and hepatitis B e antigen (HBeAg) (A); four with HBeAg and a mixed infection with wild-type HB and precore mutants (B); 11 with antibody to HBeAg (HBeAb)...
Topics
- Adult
- Base Sequence
- DNA, Viral
- Female
- Hepatitis B
- Hepatitis B Surface Antigens
- Hepatitis B e Antigens
- Hepatitis B virus
- Humans
- Interferon alpha-2
- Interferon-alpha
- Male
- Middle Aged
- Molecular Sequence Data
- Mutation