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Prevalence of autoantibodies in a Tunisian cohort of hepatitis C virus infected dialysis patients.
Archives de l'Institut Pasteur de Tunis - 1 Jan 2009
Sfar I, Elbeldi A, Aouini S, Chiha A, Aouadi H, Ayed-Jendoubi S, Abderrahim E, Ben Abdallah T, Kheder A, Ayed K, Gorgi Y
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The hepatitis C virus (HCV) is the principal agent of viral chronic hepatitis. Cirrhosis and hepatocellular carcinoma are the major complications of this chronic infection. In haemodialysis, HCV infection remains a very frequent problem. Several autoimmune phenomena have been described during this infection. Two hundred haemodialysis patients, all of them anti-HCV (+), were included in this study to evaluate the...
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