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Hepatitis B virus precore mutants in HBeAg carriers with chronic hepatitis treated with interferon.
Journal of viral hepatitis - 1 Jan 1995
Lampertico P, Manzin A, Rumi M G, Paolucci S, Del Ninno E, Clementi M, Colombo M
Abstract excerpt
Precore mutants of hepatitis B virus (HBV) were looked for in 18 hepatitis B e antigen (HBeAg) carriers who were treated with recombinant interferon-alpha (rIFN) and the results were compared with those obtained in 12 untreated carriers who underwent spontaneous HBeAb seroconversion. Molecular analysis of the HBV precore region was carried out by polymerase chain reaction (PCR) amplification and direct...
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