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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2023 Aug 28.
Published in final edited form as: Gastroenterol Clin North Am. 2019 Apr 1;48(2):259–279. doi: 10.1016/j.gtc.2019.02.007

Figure 2.

Figure 2.

HBV virus particles. A. The infectious (Dane) particle contains surface antigen (HBsAg), the partially double stranded (ds) DNA genome (ss = single strand), the viral RNA dependent, DNA polymerase, and the core antigen (HBcAg). HBsAg is released into serum as spherical particles (B) or tubular structures (C). These particles do not carry viral DNA, HBcAg or the viral polymerase.