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Prevalence and clinical implications of occult hepatitis B viral infection in hemophilia patients in Japan.
Journal of medical virology - 1 Jun 2004
Toyoda Hidenori, Hayashi Kazuhiko, Murakami Yoshiki, Honda Takashi, Katano Yoshiaki, Nakano Isao, Goto Hidemi, Kumada Takashi, Takamatsu Junki
Abstract excerpt
The prevalence and clinical implications of occult hepatitis B virus (HBV) infection were investigated in the Japanese patients with hemophilia in whom a high prevalence of infection with transfusion-transmissible viruses has been reported. HBV DNA was detected in the sera of 22 of 43 (51.2%) patients with hemophilia who were negative for HBV surface antigen (HBs), indicating that these patients had occult HBV...
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