Recent clinical studies have suggested that the risk of developing HCC might be lower in patients with chronic hepatitis B receiving tenofovir disoproxil fumarate than in patients receiving entecavir, although there is no difference ...
Chronic hepatitis B virus (HBV) infection is a major medical concern worldwide. Current treatments for HBV infection effectively inhibit virus replication; however, these treatments cannot cure HBV and novel treatment-strategies should b...
Although conventional polymerase chain reaction (PCR) methods are widely used in diagnosis, the titer of the pathogenic virus is difficult to determine based on the PCR. In our prior report, a long-range reverse-transcripti...
BackgroundThe polymerase chain reaction (PCR) is commonly used to detect viral pathogens because of its high sensitivity and specificity. However, conventional PCR methods cannot determine virus infectivity. Virus infectivity is conventionally exa...
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