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Abstract

Due to the absence of easily accessible animal models for the study of hepatitis B virus (HBV), the possibility of using , a monkey originating from Morocco, North Africa, was investigated. Three monkeys were intrahepatically inoculated with a replication-competent head-to-tail HBV DNA plasmid dimer construct. The HBV surface antigen and HBV DNA were detected prior to alanine aminotransferase elevation in the serum of two of three HBV-inoculated monkeys at day 2 post-transfection and persisted for several weeks. This indicates that transfected animals developed markers of HBV infection. In addition, electron microscopy of the serum 3 weeks post-transfection showed the presence of virus particles whose shape and size were similar to complete 42 nm HBV Dane particles. Histological examination of liver tissues also revealed pathological changes not observed in uninfected controls, which strongly suggested acute hepatitis. HBV DNA was also detected by PCR in these monkey livers. Taken together, these results indicate that HBV can successfully replicate in this model and that could be a potentially useful new primate model for the study of HBV replication.

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