What is it about?
Was to determine the prevalence of occult hepatitis B virus infection and liver of HBsAg negative patients with chronic hepatitis C and to evaluate its clinical consequences on liver pathology and its impact on the response to treatment with peg-IFNa and Ribavirin. Immunohistochemistry staining for hepatitis B surface antigen and HBV DNA detection was assessed retrospectively on liver biopsies of HCV positive/ HBsAg negative patients before treatment
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The frequency of occult HBV infection was not affected by the presence of hepatitis C and occult HBV infection did not have a significant effect on the disease severity of hepatitis C
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Writing this article was a great pleasure as it has co-authors with whom I have had long standing collaborations.
Professor Mona Ahmed Amin
Cairo University
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This page is a summary of: Occult Hepatitis B Virus infection in a cohort of patients with chronic Hepatitis C, Archives of Hepatitis Research, July 2019, Peertechz.com,
DOI: 10.17352/ahr.000022.
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