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Anti-HBe titre in patients infected with wild-type and e-minus variant of hepatitis B virus.
Research in virology - 1 Jan 2000
Tu H, Li P Y, Wen Y M
Abstract excerpt
Serum samples from 77 HBsAg- and anti-HBe-positive chronic hepatitis B patients were studied for a G to A point mutation at the 1896 nucleotide of the precore region by polymerase chain reaction and oligonucleotide hybridization. Patients were grouped as: A, infected only by the wild-type virus; B, infected only by e-minus variant; C, coinfected by the wild-type and e-minus variant; and D, no precore/core gene of...
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