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Table 3 Incidence of chronic infection

From: Experimental chronic hepatitis B infection of neonatal tree shrews (Tupaia belangeri chinensis): A model to study molecular causes for susceptibility and disease progression to chronic hepatitis in humans

Inoculum

No*

Confirmed chronic infection (%)

Suspected chronic- infection

Total chronic- infection (%)

Serum from HBV-patient

37

5 (13.5)

2

7 (18.9)

Serum from HBV-infected tree shrew

9

1 (11.1)

2

3 (33.3)

Total

46

6 (13.0)

4

10 (21.7)

  1. *: Number of inoculated animal.
  2. Analyzed by Chi-Square test with SPSS 13.0 statistics software, the infection incidence of the two sources of inoculum (serum of human and serum of tree shrew) were not significantly different (χ2 = 0.24, P = 0.624).
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Virology Journal

ISSN: 1743-422X