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Clinical and molecular characterization of chronic hepatitis B in Albania: a country that is still highly endemic for HBV infection.
Journal of medical virology - 1 Jan 2005
Kondili L A, Brunetto M R, Maina A M, Argentini C, Chionne P, La Sorsa V, Resuli B, Mele A, Rapicetta Maria
Abstract excerpt
Albania is a Mediterranean country, still with a high endemicity level of hepatitis B virus (HBV) infection. The chronic hepatitis B profile was characterized in this geographical area and used as a model to investigate the impact of endemicity level on the prevalence of the two major forms of chronic hepatitis B (HBeAg-positive and HBeAg-negative chronic hepatitis B). A cross-sectional study was conducted among...
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