Hepatitis B virus (HBV) infects more than 300 million people worldwide and is a common
cause of liver disease and liver cancer. HBV, a member of the Hepadnaviridae family, is a …

Occult hepatitis B virus (HBV) infection (OBI) refers to a condition in which replication-
competent viral DNA is present in the liver (with detectable or undetectable HBV DNA in the …

Occult hepatitis B virus (HBV) infection is one of the most challenging topics in the field of
viral hepatitis with its virological and clinical relevance being debated for more than 30 …

The persistence of hepatitis B virus (HBV) genomes in HBV surface antigen (HBsAg)
negative individuals is termed occult HBV infection. Occult HBV status is associated in some …

Background Hepatitis B virus (HBV) infections in patients who lack detectable hepatitis B
surface antigen (HBsAg) are called occult infections. Although such infections have been …

Current knowledge of hepatitis B virus (HBV) sequence heterogeneity is based mainly on
sequencing of amplified subgenomic HBV fragments. Here, we describe a method which …

Hepadnaviruses, as well as other pararetroviruses, express their pol (P) gene product
unfused to the preceding core gene implying that these retroelements have developed a …

One third of the global population has been acutely infected with hepatitis B virus (HBV);
less than 1% of patients with acute infection will develop fulminant hepatitis. 1 Approximately …

For the systematic analysis of various clinical and molecular aspects of hepatitis B virus
(HBV) infection, an experimental small animal system of HBV infection would be a great …

Detection of occult hepatitis B requires assays of the highest sensitivity and specificity with a
lower limit of detection of less than 10 IU/mL for hepatitis B virus (HBV) DNA and< 0.1 ng/mL …