Summers J, Smolec J M, Snyder R
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 1978 Sep;75(9):4533-7. doi: 10.1073/pnas.75.9.4533.
Particles with properties similar to those associated with human hepatitis B were found in serum from woodchucks with chronic hepatitis and hepatocellular carcinoma. It is suggested that woodchuck hepatitis virus is a second member of a novel class of viruses represented by the human hepatitis B virus.
在患有慢性肝炎和肝细胞癌的土拨鼠血清中发现了具有与人类乙型肝炎相关特性的颗粒。有人提出,土拨鼠肝炎病毒是由人类乙型肝炎病毒代表的一类新型病毒中的第二个成员。