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Hepatitis C virus is frequently coinfected with serum marker-negative hepatitis B virus: probable replication promotion of the former by the latter as demonstrated by in vitro cotransfection.
Journal of medical virology - 1 Aug 1997
Uchida T, Kaneita Y, Gotoh K, Kanagawa H, Kouyama H, Kawanishi T, Mima S
Abstract excerpt
Patients with hepatitis C have been reported occasionally to be coinfected with serum marker-negative (silent) hepatitis B virus (HBV). The frequency and significance of such coinfection were investigated. Thirty patients with hepatitis C virus (HCV) infections (10 acute, 10 chronic, 10 cirrhotic) were selected randomly; the acute cases were without serum hepatitis B surface antigen (HBsAg) and anti-hepatitis B...
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