Saldanha J A, Thomas H C, Monjardino J P
Department of Medicine, St Mary's Hospital Medical School, London, U.K.
J Gen Virol. 1990 Jul;71 ( Pt 7):1603-6. doi: 10.1099/0022-1317-71-7-1603.
The RNA of hepatitis delta virus (HDV) 1682 nucleotides long, has been cloned from a human serum isolate. Comparison with the three complete published sequences shows that a region of the HDV genome, between positions 620 and 1350, which contains sequences involved in replication and possibly pathogenicity, is highly conserved.