No data are available about the amount of hepatitis B virus (HBV) genomes in liver of patients with chronic HBV infection. The aim of this study was to quantify the intrahepatic HBV DNA in hepatitis B surface antigen (HBsAg)-positive patients with either active or suppressed viral replication and in
Hepatitis delta virus infection in chronically HBV-infected patients from northern Poland
โ Scribed by K. P. Bielawski; D. Zietkowski; U. Charmuszko; K. Sikorska; P. Stalke
- Publisher
- Springer Vienna
- Year
- 2006
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 803 KB
- Volume
- 151
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 1432-8798
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