Hepatitis B virus specific transcripts in peripheral blood mononuclear cells
- 1 January 1992
- book chapter
- Published by Springer Nature
- Vol. 4, 46-49
- https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-7091-5633-9_10
Abstract
We report on the analysis of HBV transcription in peripheral blood mononuclear cells of chronically infected patients by polymerase chain reaction amplification. Our results suggest that in these cells gene expression occurs either as pregenomic or subgenomic transcripts.Keywords
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