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Science 1999 Apr 30;284(5415):825-829
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Bioqual, Incorporated,
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However, in this study, HBV DNA was shown to largely disappear from the Liver and the blood of acutely infected chimpanzees long before the peak of T-Cell infiltration and most of the Liver Disease.