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Clinical and virological characteristics associated with severe acute hepatitis B.
Clinical microbiology and infection : the official publication of the European Society of Clinical Microbiology and Infectious Diseases - 1 Dec 2014
Coppola N, Sagnelli C, Pisaturo M, Minichini C, Messina V, Alessio L, Starace M, Signoriello G, Gentile I, Filippini P, Sagnelli E
Abstract excerpt
To identify early predictors of a severe or fulminant course in patients with acute viral hepatitis B (AVH-B). One hundred and thirty-eight patients with symptomatic acute hepatitis B observed from 1999 to 2012 were enrolled. For each patient, the demographics, risk factors for the acquisition of hepatitis B virus (HBV) infection, clinical, biochemical and virological data (HBV DNA, HBV DNA sequences) were...
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