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Molecular variants of hepatitis B virus.
Clinics in laboratory medicine - 1 Jun 1996
Carman W F
Abstract excerpt
Variation in the genome of hepatitis B virus has been associated with a number of clinical parameters, but there is a paucity of functional data to show a causal relationship. For example, variants of the core and X genes have been linked with the pathogenesis of chronic hepatitis, viral replication efficiency, and serologically negative infections, among other observations. Variants of the surface antigen are...
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