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Isolation of a hepadnavirus from the woolly monkey, a New World primate.
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America - 12 May 1998
Lanford R E, Chavez D, Brasky K M, Burns R B, Rico-Hesse R
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Hepatitis B virus (HBV) infections are a major worldwide health problem with chronic infections leading to cirrhosis and liver cancer. Viruses related to human HBV have been isolated from birds and rodents, but despite efforts to find hepadnaviruses that infect species intermediate in evolution between rodents and humans, none have been described. We recently isolated a hepadnavirus from a woolly monkey...
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