Hepatitis B e antigen in sera from individuals infected with hepatitis B virus of genotype G

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1987 • 59,130 citations

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1989 • 1,210 citations

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1988 • 1,057 citations

Hepatitis B genotypes correlate with clinical outcomes in patients with chronic hepatitis B

2000 • 940 citations

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2000 • 923 citations

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1994 • 804 citations

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1997 • 460 citations

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1995 • 409 citations

A case-control study for clinical and molecular biological differences between hepatitis B viruses of genotypes B and C

2001 • 400 citations

Serological detection of hepatitis B virus genotypes by ELISA with monoclonal antibodies to type-specific epitopes in the preS2-region product

1999 • 291 citations

Estimation of average number of nucleotide substitutions when the rate of substitution varies with nucleotide

1982 • 283 citations

Does hepatitis B virus (HBV) genotype influence the clinical outcome of HBV infection?

1999 • 247 citations

Immunochemical structure of hepatitis B e antigen in the serum.

1983 • 217 citations

ODEN: a program package for molecular evolutionary analysis and database search of DNA and amino acid sequences

1994 • 153 citations

Emergence of and takeover by hepatitis B virus (HBV) with rearrangements in the pre-S/S and pre-C/C genes during chronic HBV infection

1991 • 146 citations

Formation of transmembraneous hepatitis b e-antigen by cotranslational in vitro processing of the viral precore protein

1988 • 130 citations

Relationships within and between genotypes of hepatitis B virus at points across the genome: footprints of recombination in certain isolates

2000 • 123 citations

Recombination between sequences of hepatitis B virus from different genotypes

1996 • 110 citations

Differentiation of hepatitis B virus genotypes D and E by ELISA using monoclonal antibodies to epitopes on the preS2-region product

2000 • 85 citations

Molecular Characterization of A New Variant of Hepatitis B Virus in A Persistently Infected Homosexual Man

1990 • 80 citations

Determination of hepatitis B virus genotype G by polymerase chain reaction with hemi-nested primers

2001 • 79 citations

In vivo selection of a hepatitis B virus mutant with abnormal viral protein expression

1996 • 32 citations