Article
Novel hepatitis D-like agents in vertebrates and invertebrates
2019-02-04
Abstract excerpt
Hepatitis delta virus (HDV) is the smallest known RNA virus and encodes a single protein. Until recently, HDV had only been identified in humans, where it is strongly associated with co-infection with hepatitis B virus (HBV). However, the recent discovery of HDV-like viruses in metagenomic samples from birds and snakes suggests that this virus has a far longer evolutionary history. Herein, using additional meta-tr...
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- Literature Corpus work
- c52a7874-6c10-5bf3-8002-8bbc85b9a1a0
- DOI
- 10.1101/539924