Comment on

• Mutations in the precore region of hepatitis B virus DNA in patients with fulminant and severe hepatitis.

  Omata M, Ehata T, Yokosuka O, Hosoda K, Ohto M. Omata M, et al. N Engl J Med. 1991 Jun 13;324(24):1699-704. doi: 10.1056/NEJM199106133242404. N Engl J Med. 1991. PMID: 2034246
• A hepatitis B virus mutant associated with an epidemic of fulminant hepatitis.

  Liang TJ, Hasegawa K, Rimon N, Wands JR, Ben-Porath E. Liang TJ, et al. N Engl J Med. 1991 Jun 13;324(24):1705-9. doi: 10.1056/NEJM199106133242405. N Engl J Med. 1991. PMID: 2034247