Udo Hetzel

Snake kolmiovirus encodes a single form of delta antigen and shows no evidence of translation from ORF2

Hepatitis D virus (HDV) is a satellite virus that utilizes hepatitis B virus (HBV) as a helper for infectious particle formation. HDV was originally identified as a novel antigen in liver biopsies of HBV patients, and later studies showed the ‘delta’ antigen (DAg) to be the sole...