Virologie
MENULe virus de l'hépatite delta et sa réplication Volume 1, hors-série 1, Hors série n°1, Janvier - Février 1997
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- Key words: Hepatitis delta virus - HDV.
- Page(s) : 51-9
- Published in: 1997
Hepatitis delta virus, a human pathogen can be considered as a satellite RNA or a defective virus in that it requires envelope proteins from coinfecting hepatitis B virus to assemble an infectious particle. Surprisingly, its genome displays a structure similar to that of plant viroids and shares with the latter a replication strategy involving a rolling-circle process. For these reasons HDV has emerged as a novel entity among animal viruses.