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Real-Time Polymerase Chain Reaction-Based Detection and Quantification of Hepatitis B Virus DNA
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Detection of HBV RNA in serum of patients
Wei Zhang1, Hans Jörg Hacker, Maria Mildenberger
1Department of Virus Host Interactions, Deutsches Krebsforschungszentrum, Heidelberg, Germany.
Methods in Molecular Medicine
|February 6, 2004
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