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Occult HBV infection among anti-HBc positive HIV-infected patients in apex referral centre, Eastern India.
Annals of hepatology - 1 Jan 2000
Panigrahi R, Majumder S, Gooptu M, Biswas A, Datta S, Chandra P K, Banerjee A, Chakrabarti S, Bandopadhyay D, De B K, Chakravarty R
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BACKGROUND: The prevalence of occult HBV, defined by the presence of HBV DNA in individuals with antibodies to HBV core antigen and with absence of HBV surface antigen, but its clinical significance and virological features in HIV-infected patients is still unclear. AIM: To investigate the prevalence, clinical significance and molecular characterization of occult hepatitis B virus infection in ART-Naive...
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