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Advances in the molecular diagnosis of hepatitis B infection: providing insight into the next generation of disease.
Seminars in liver disease - 1 May 2013
Bayliss Julianne, Nguyen Tin, Lesmana C Rinaldi A, Bowden Scott, Revill Peter
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Hepatitis B virus (HBV) infection continues to represent a significant health threat, affecting over 400 million people worldwide. Historically, the diagnosis and treatment of chronic hepatitis B (CHB) relied in detection of the hepatitis B surface antigen (HBsAg) and more recently realtime polymerase chain reaction (PCR) analysis. The advent of novel technologies and equipment for the identification and staging...
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