Five consecutive passages of hepatitis delta virus in hepatitis B virus carrier chimpanzees were performed in order to further characterize the infectious and pathogenic nature of this naturally occurring defective virus. Three animals received identical inocula at fourth passage in order to assess
Splenic replication of hepatitis B virus in the chimpanzee chronic carrier
β Scribed by Harvey M. Lieberman; William W. Tung; David A. Shafritz
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons
- Year
- 1987
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 923 KB
- Volume
- 21
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0146-6615
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