Publications
| woodchuck hepatitis virus in natural woodchuck populations. | woodchuck hepatitis virus (whv) was discovered in serum samples from captive woodchucks (marmota monax) at the penrose research laboratory in december, 1977. whv belongs to the same class of viruses as hepatitis b virus (hbv), the cause of serum hepatitis in man. both appear to be associated with chronic hepatitis and hepatocellular carcinoma in their respective hosts. woodchucks were trapped and blood samples collected to determine the prevalence of whv in natural woodchuck populations. sera fr ... | 1981 | 7241716 |
| heterogeneity of the woodchuck hepatitis virus genome in a chronically infected woodchuck. | the nucleotide sequence of an isolate of woodchuck hepatitis virus (whv) from the serum of a woodchuck trapped in new york state (whvny) was compared with the sequences of previously published isolates. the nucleotide sequence of whvny was closest to that of an isolate originating from new jersey: the two genomes shared a 15 nucleotide in-frame deletion in the region where the presurface and polymerase genes overlap (nucleotides 3260-3274) and differed by 54 point mutations (1.6% of genome). ami ... | 1993 | 8488722 |