HDV-Like Viruses

Hepatitis delta virus (HDV) is a defective human virus that lacks the ability to produce its own envelope proteins and is thus dependent on the presence of a helper virus, which provides its surface proteins to produce infectious particles. Hepatitis B virus (HBV) was so far thought to be the only h...

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Main Authors: Jimena Pérez-Vargas, Rémi Pereira de Oliveira, Stéphanie Jacquet, Dominique Pontier, François-Loïc Cosset, Natalia Freitas
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: MDPI AG 2021-06-01
Series:Viruses
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Online Access:https://www.mdpi.com/1999-4915/13/7/1207