Chronic Hepatitis B Virus Infection Acquired Under Cytostatic Treatment in Childhood - Clinical, Virological and Immunological Long-Term Follow-Up.

Abstract excerpt

Oncology patients receiving cytostatic therapy used to be at high risk of HBV infection when HBV screening measures were less reliable. Infections acquired under these conditions often persist, like those acquired perinatally or during early infancy. We studied the long-term clinical outcomes, viral characteristics, and virus-specific T-cell immunity of chronic HBV infection acquired during chemotherapy. We...

Topics

• Humans
• Hepatitis B, Chronic
• Male
• Female
• Child
• Hepatitis B virus