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Hepatitis D virus genotypes in intravenous drug users in taiwan: decreasing prevalence and lack of correlation with hepatitis B virus genotypes.
Journal of clinical microbiology - 1 Aug 2002
Kao Jia-Horng, Chen Pei-Jer, Lai Ming-Yang, Chen Ding-Shinn
Abstract excerpt
Of 368 hepatitis B virus (HBV)-infected intravenous drug users, 144 (39%) were positive for antibody to hepatitis D virus (anti-HDV). Anti-HDV-positive HBV carriers had a lower rate of positivity for HBV DNA than did anti-HDV-negative carriers (52 versus 73%, respectively). From 1986 to 1997, the...
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