Two hepatitis B virus carrier chimpanzees which were superinfected with hepatitis A virus developed acute hepatitis followed by the production of antibodies to hepatitis A virus. The Southern blot technique employed to monitor liver hepatitis B virus DNA revealed that the amount of viral DNA in both
Dynamics of acute hepatitis B virus infection in chimpanzees
โ Scribed by Chen, Xiao; Min, Lequan; Zheng, Yu; Kuang, Yang; Ye, Yongan
- Book ID
- 121742134
- Publisher
- Elsevier Science
- Year
- 2014
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 829 KB
- Volume
- 96
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0378-4754
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