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

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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 cccDNA accumulation, previously shown to be cytopathic in vitro, as a model for the pathogenesis of analogous viruses in...

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