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Real-Time Polymerase Chain Reaction-Based Detection and Quantification of Hepatitis B Virus DNA
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Quantification of HBV covalently closed circular DNA from liver tissue by real-time PCR
Scott Bowden1, Kathy Jackson, Margaret Littlejohn
1Victorian Infectious Diseases Reference Laboratory, North Melbourne, Australia.
Methods in Molecular Medicine
|February 6, 2004
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