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Genotyping of occult hepatitis B virus infection in Egyptian hemodialysis patients without hepatitis C virus infection.
Journal of infection and public health - 1 Jan 2000
Esmail Mona A, Mahdi Wafaa K M, Khairy Rasha M, Abdalla Nilly H
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BACKGROUND: Occult hepatitis B viral infection is the presence of hepatitis B viral nucleic acids in the serum and/or liver in the absence of hepatitis B surface antigen. AIM: The study aimed to determine the prevalence of occult hepatitis B virus infection among hepatitis C virus-negative hemodialysis patients and to identify their genotypes. METHODS: of 144 patients on maintenance hemodialysis, 50 hepatitis B...
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