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Hepatitis delta virus infection in chronically HBV-infected patients from northern Poland.
Archives of virology - 1 Jun 2006
Bielawski K P, Zietkowski D, Charmuszko U, Sikorska K, Stalke P
Abstract excerpt
The objective of this study was to estimate the presence of hepatitis delta virus RNA in chronically HBV-infected patients from northern Poland. Three out of 63 studied samples (4.8%) were positive in a qualitative test for total antibodies to HDV antigen. Five samples (7.9%) turned out to be HDV-RNA-positive by RT-PCR, four of them were sequenced in the region of L-HDAg, and phylogenetic analysis was performed....
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