Hepatitis B virus replication‐an update

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Hepatitis B virus (HBV), the causative agent of type B hepatitis in humans, is the prototypic member of the hepadnaviridae, a family of small enveloped DNA-containing viruses with pronounced host and tissue specificity. This property has greatly hampered progress in understanding the initial events of infection, i.e. attachment, penetration and uncoating. After the discovery, originally made with the duck...

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