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Intrahepatic levels and replicative activity of covalently closed circular hepatitis B virus DNA in chronically infected patients

✍ Scribed by Andreas Laras; John Koskinas; Evangelini Dimou; Ageliki Kostamena; Stephanos J. Hadziyannis

Publisher: John Wiley and Sons
Year: 2006
Tongue: English
Weight: 217 KB
Volume: 44
Category: Article
ISSN: 0270-9139
DOI: 10.1002/hep.21299

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