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Estimating hepatitis B virus cccDNA persistence in chronic infection

2020-02-07

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Hepatitis B virus (HBV) infection is a major global health problem with over 240 million infected individuals at risk of developing progressive liver disease and hepatocellular carcinoma. HBV is an enveloped DNA virus that establishes its genome as an episomal, covalently closed circular DNA (cccDNA) in the nucleus of infected hepatocytes. Currently available standard-of-care treatments for chronic hepatitis B (CH...

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6219b3ce-1e78-5168-ab24-2e7bf51f4843
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10.1101/2020.02.04.20020362
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