Delta hepatitis in inapparent carriers of hepatitis B surface antigen. A disease simulating acute hepatitis B progressive to chronicity.

Immunofluorescence detection of new antigen-antibody system (delta/anti-delta) associated to hepatitis B virus in liver and in serum of HBsAg carriers.

1977 • 964 citations

Transmission of the Hepatitis B Virus-Associated Delta Antigen to Chimpanzees

1980 • 486 citations

The hepatitis B virus-associated delta antigen: isolation from liver, development of solid-phase radioimmunoassays for delta antigen and anti-delta and partial characterization of delta antigen.

1980 • 197 citations

INCIDENCE AND SIGNIFICANCE OF ANTIBODIES TO DELTA ANTIGEN IN HEPATITIS B VIRUS INFECTION

1979 • 183 citations

Infection with the Delta (δ) Agent in Chronic HBsAg Carriers

1981 • 174 citations

A new principle for the detection of specific IgM antibodies applied in an ELISA for hepatitis a

1979 • 157 citations

Radioimmunoassay detection of igm antibodies to the hbv‐associated delta (δ) antigen: Clinical significance in δ infection

1982 • 149 citations

Serodiagnosis of Recent Hepatitis B Infection by IgM Class Anti-HBc

2007 • 146 citations

EPIDEMIOLOGIC PATTERNS OF INFECTION WITH THE HEPATITIS B VIRUS-ASSOCIATED DELTA AGENT IN ITALY

1983 • 125 citations

The δ agent: HBsAg particles with δ antigen and RNA in the serum of an HBV carrier

1981 • 78 citations

δ antigen in hepatitis B: Immunohistology of frozen and paraffin-embedded liver biopsies and relation to HBV infection

1981 • 73 citations

Seroconversion from Hepatitis B e antigen to Anti-HBe in Acute Hepatitis B Virus Infection

1978 • 70 citations

Presence and meaning of anti-HBc IgM as determined by ELISA in patients with acute type B hepatitis and healthy HBsAg carriers

1981 • 66 citations

The IgM antibody responses to the core antigen of hepatitis B virus

1978 • 50 citations

IgM-antibody response to the hepatitis B core antigen in acute and chronic hepatitis B

1981 • 40 citations

A radioimmunoassay for HBcAg in the sera of HBsAg carriers: Serum HBcAg, serum DNA polymerase activity, and liver HBcAg immunofluorescence as markers of chronic liver disease

1981 • 32 citations

The significance of IgM antibodies to hepatitis B core antigen in hepatitis B carriers and hepatitis B-associated chronic liver disease

1982 • 31 citations

Radioimmunoassay detection of IgM antibodies to the hepatitis B core antigen in HBsAg liver disease.

1982 • 13 citations

Interplay of Cell and Serum Immunologic Markers in Chronic Persistent or Active Hepatitis B

1981 • 9 citations