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Hepatitis B virus variants in patients with acute hepatitis in whom various clinical forms develop.
Kansenshogaku zasshi. The Journal of the Japanese Association for Infectious Diseases - 1 Jan 1998
Fujise K, Suzuki K, Naito Y, Niiya M, Ishikawa T, Takahashi H, Hoshina S, Saito A, Watanabe R
Abstract excerpt
Ten patients who suffered from acute hepatitis with various clinical forms due to hepatitis B virus (HBV) were studied. HBV variants with a mutation in the precore region were dominant in two patients with fulminant hepatitis and in a patient with the most severe acute hepatitis. However, these mutant viruses were not detected in a patient who had the fulminant form of acute HBV infection on chronic liver damage...
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