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Hepatitis B virus genotype A and D and clinical outcomes of liver transplantation for HBV-related disease.
Liver transplantation : official publication of the American Association for the Study of Liver Diseases and the International Liver Transplantation Society - 1 Jan 2004
Girlanda Raffaele, Mohsen Abdul H, Smith Heather, Sablon Erwin, Yuen Man-Fung, O'Grady John, Muiesan Paolo, Rela Mohamed, Heaton Nigel, Norris Suzanne
Abstract excerpt
Hepatitis B virus (HBV) genotypes have been associated with specific patterns of disease and response to antiviral therapy. We investigated the effect of HBV genotype on HBV recurrence and mortality after liver transplantation (LT). Pretransplant sera of 45 hepatitis B surface antigen (HBsAg) positive adults were submitted for HBV genotyping by a reverse-phase hybridization line probe assay with genotype-specific...
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