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B. Grimm
Ligase Chain Reaction (LCR®) assay for semi-quantitative detection of HBV DNA in mononuclear leukocytes of patients with chronic hepatitis B
Summary. A ligase chain reaction (LCR®)-based approach to detect hepatitis B virus (HBV) DNA in peripheral blood mononuclear cells (PBMC) is described. Using this new amplification technique, we determined semi-quantitatively the amount of a short HBV S-gene fragment in PBMC lysates of 25 patients with different forms of chronic hepatitis (group A (n= 8), hepatitis B s antigen (HBsAg)+/hepatitis B e antigen (HBeAg)+; group B (n= 9), HBsAg+/HBeAg-; group C (n= 8), HBsAg-/HBeAg-). The LCR results were compared with the findings obtained with polymerase chain reaction (PCR) amplification of three distinct HBV gene regions (preS1/2, S and C) and related to the serological profiles of the patien…
CCDC 843819: Experimental Crystal Structure Determination
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