Competition in vivo between a cytopathic variant and a wild-type duck hepatitis B virus.

doi:10.1006/viro.1998.9394

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Competition in vivo between a cytopathic variant and a wild-type duck hepatitis B virus.

Virology - 10 Nov 1998

Lenhoff R J, Luscombe C A, Summers J

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Several examples of human hepatitis B virus strains with enhanced replication in vitro have been described. To understand whether this characteristic could be a cause of liver disease, we have studied a variant of the closely related duck hepatitis B virus (DHBV) that had enhanced levels of cccDN...

Topics

Animals
Cells, Cultured
Chickens
Cytopathogenic Effect, Viral
DNA, Viral
Ducks
Genotype
Hepadnaviridae Infections
Hepatitis B Virus, Duck
Immunohistochemistry
Liver
Liver Neoplasms
Mutation
Polymerase Chain Reaction
Transfection
Tumor Cells, Cultured
Viremia
Virus Replication

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