Task: Answer Verification
Input (English): Question: Are outcome of liver disease and response to interferon treatment influenced by hepatitis B virus core gene variability in children with chronic type B hepatitis?
Answer: Core gene variability does not seem to be involved either in the outcome of infection or in the response to IFN treatment in children with HBV chronic hepatitis. Considering that most of the HBV carriers in our area acquire the infection in childhood, our data suggest that core gene heterogeneity is not a major cause of progression to chronicity.
Output (English): no