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Prevalence of occult hepatitis C virus infection in the Iranian patients with human immunodeficiency virus infection.
Journal of medical virology - 1 Nov 2016
Bokharaei-Salim Farah, Keyvani Hossein, Esghaei Maryam, Zare-Karizi Shohreh, Dermenaki-Farahani Sahar-Sadat, Hesami-Zadeh Khashayar, Fakhim Shahin
Abstract excerpt
Occult hepatitis C virus (HCV) infection is a new form of chronic HCV infection described by the presence of the genomic HCV-RNA in liver biopsy and/or peripheral blood mononuclear cell (PBMC) samples, and undetectable levels or absence of HCV-RNA and in the absence or presence of anti HCV antibodies in the plasma specimens. The aim of the present study was to evaluate the occurrence of occult HCV infection (OCI)...
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