Analysis of wild-type and e antigen-defe
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Manabu Daikoku; Keisuke Nakata; Keisuke Hamasaki; Akio Ido; Kazuhiko Nakao; Yuji
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Article
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1995
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John Wiley and Sons
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English
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## Abstract Hepatitis B virus (HBV), with a G‐to‐A point mutation at nucleotide 83 in the precore region (mutant HBV83), accounts for most cases of hepatitis B e antigen (HBeAg)‐defective HBV. However, it is still not clear how mutant HBV83 is associated with HBe seroconversion. Twenty‐six HBeAgpos