Association of intrahepatic cccDNA reduc
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Pin-Nan Cheng; Wen-Chun Liu; Hung-Wen Tsai; I-Chin Wu; Ting-Tsung Chang; Kung-Ch
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Article
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2011
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John Wiley and Sons
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English
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Covalently closed circular DNA (cccDNA) of hepatitis B virus (HBV) is difficult to eradicate using current antiviral therapy. This study compares cccDNA reduction with relation to liver histology in nucleoside/nucleotide-naı ¨ve chronic hepatitis B patients receiving oral antiviral monotherapy (n ¼