Detection of hepatitis B virus DNA in pa
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Michiko Shindo; Tadao Okuno; Ken Arai; Masayuki Matsumoto; Makoto Takeda; Kei Ka
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Article
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1991
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John Wiley and Sons
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English
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We developed a polymerase chain reaction assay for the direct detection of hepatitis B virus in paraffin-embedded liver tissue and applied this assay to determine whether hepatitis B virus DNA exists in livers with chronic hepatitis non-A, non-B. Fifty five liver biopsy samples were studied: 11 from