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Hepatitis delta virus diagnosis.
Seminars in liver disease - 1 Aug 2012
Olivero Antonella, Smedile Antonina
Abstract excerpt
The first step in the diagnosis of hepatitis delta virus (HDV) infection is testing HBsAg-positive individuals for the antibody to the HD antigen (anti-HD).In anti-HD-positive patients, the next step is testing for HDV RNA in serum to determine whether the antibody reflects an ongoing active HDV infection (HDV-RNA-positive) or represents a serologic scar to past HDV infection (HDV-RNA-negative). In the...
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