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S F Wieland1, S Asabe, R E Engle, R H Purcell, F V Chisari.
Abstract
We compared the kinetics and magnitude of hepatitis B virus (HBV) infection in hepatitis C virus (HCV)-naive and chronically HCV-infected chimpanzees in whose livers type I interferon-stimulated gene (ISG) expression is strongly induced. HBV infection was delayed and attenuated in the HCV-infected animals, and the number of HBV-infected hepatocytes was drastically reduced. These results suggest that establishment of HBV infection and its replication space is limited by the antiviral effects of type I interferon in the chronically HCV-infected liver.Entities:
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Year: 2014 PMID: 24522924 PMCID: PMC3993806 DOI: 10.1128/JVI.03553-13
Source DB: PubMed Journal: J Virol ISSN: 0022-538X Impact factor: 5.103