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The S protein of hepatitis B virus is the principal component of virus envelope and the primary target of anti-HBs response. Mutants or variants that escape neutralization by anti-HBs have...
The hepatitis B virus (HBV) polymerase gene has overlapping reading frames with surface genes, which allows to alter the amino acid codon of the surface genes. In adefovir (ADV) treated...
Kim JH, Koh DK, Hur JK, Kang JH, Nainan OV, Margolis H
KMID: 1119358
Korean J Hepatol.
2005 Dec;11(4):320-328.
BACKGROUND/AIMS: Perinatal infection with hepatitis B virus (HBV) may occur despite immunoprophylaxis. One of the important mechanisms for perinatal prophylaxis failure, might include HBV surface gene variants. Therefore, we...