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Occult HBV infection among Egyptian hepatocellular carcinoma patients.
Virology journal - 3 Mar 2011
Hassan Zeinab K, Hafez Mohamed M, Mansor Tarek M, Zekri Abdel Rahman N
Abstract excerpt
BACKGROUND: Occult HBV infection accelerates the progression of liver fibrosis, cirrhosis, and finally leading to hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC). This study analyzed the occult HBV-genotypes in HCC patients. METHODS: To achieve our objective, matched serum and tissue samples were collected from 40 HCC patients. Three sets of primers were used for the HBV-DNA detection by nested-PCR, which cover the HBV-genome;...
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