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15year fulminant hepatitis B follow-up in Belgium: Viral evolution and signature of demographic change.
Infection, genetics and evolution : journal of molecular epidemiology and evolutionary genetics in infectious diseases - 1 Apr 2017
Mina Thomas, Amini-Bavil-Olyaee Samad, Shirvani-Dastgerdi Elham, Trovão Nídia Sequeira, Van Ranst Marc, Pourkarim Mahmoud Reza
Abstract excerpt
Fulminant hepatitis among different clinical outcomes of hepatitis B virus infection is very rare and manifests high mortality rate, however it has not been investigated in Belgian inhabitants yet. In the frame of a retrospective study between 1995 and 2010, 80 serum samples (in some cases serial samples) archived in Biobank, were collected from 24 patients who had clinically developed fulminant infection of...
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