Article
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 an...
Topics
- Adolescent
- Adult
- Base Sequence
- Carrier State
- Female
- Hepatitis B
- Hepatitis B Antigens
- Hepatitis B Core Antigens
- Hepatitis B e Antigens
- Hepatitis B virus
- Humans
- Interferon Type I
- Male
- Middle Aged
- Molecular Sequence Data
- Mutation
- Polymerase Chain Reaction
- Recombinant Proteins