Article
Emergence and selection of HBV variants in an anti-HBe positive patient persistently infected with quasi-species.
Journal of hepatology - 1 Apr 1997
Alexopoulou A, Karayiannis P, Hadziyannis S J, Aiba N, Thomas H C
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BACKGROUND/AIMS: Infection with the hepatitis B e antigen (HBeAg) negative variant of hepatitis B virus (HBV) causes chronic liver disease characterised by occasional acute exacerbations. This virus exhibits a high prevalence of mutations in the core region. Our aim was to study the changes in th...
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