Characterization of viral genomes in the
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Nelson Ruiz-Opazo; Prasanta R. Chakraborty; David A. Shafritz
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Article
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1982
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John Wiley and Sons
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English
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## Abstract In chimpanzee hepatitis B virus (HBV) carriers, the molecular mechanism for viral persistence has been examined by analyzing the properties of viral DNA molecules in liver and serum. Two extrachromosomal HBV‐DNA molecules migrating on Southern blots at 4.0 kb and 2.3 kb were observed in