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HCV genotype and "silent" HBV coinfection: two main risk factors for a more severe liver disease.
Journal of medical virology - 1 Jul 2001
Sagnelli E, Coppola N, Scolastico C, Mogavero A R, Filippini P, Piccinino F
Abstract excerpt
To evaluate whether HCV genotype and a "silent" HBV infection may be related to a more severe clinical presentation of liver disease, 205 anti-HCV/HCV-RNA positive, HBsAg/anti-HBs negative patients with chronic hepatitis (113 males and 92 females; median age 55 years, range 18-77), were studied on presentation at the Liver Unit from January 1993 to December 1997. Presence of serum anti-HBc, in the absence of...
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