Article
Prevalence and Genotypic Characterization of HBV in HIV-Infected Patients from Kwazulu-Natal, South Africa
2020-04-02
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<title>Abstract</title> <p><bold>Introduction</bold>: The co-infection of HIV with HBV is very common due to shared mode of transmission. HBV/HIV co-infection impact on low HBeAg expression, high HBV replication, causes progressive liver disease, cirrhosis, liver cancer and high mortality. Coinfection may lead to cross-resistance of HBV and HIV drugs due to drug-related immune therapeutic pressure or hepatotoxici...
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- Literature Corpus work
- 6c6d57e6-3643-572f-8601-2a954b56fba0
- DOI
- 10.21203/rs.3.rs-20564/v1
