Evaluation of impact of occult hepatitis B infection in chronic HCV-infected patients: A retrospective cohort study

INTRODUCTION: Occult hepatitis B infection (OBI) may contribute to liver damage and variable therapeutic response in patients with chronic hepatitis C (CHC) infection. AIMS: To study the prevalence of OBI and to evaluate its impact and/or that of anti-HBc total seropositivity on clinical...

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Main Authors: Mohit Bhatia, Ekta Gupta, Manish C Choudhary, Ankur Jindal, Shiv Kumar Sarin
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Thieme Medical and Scientific Publishers Pvt. Ltd. 2018-07-01
Series:Journal of Laboratory Physicians
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Online Access:http://www.thieme-connect.de/DOI/DOI?10.4103/JLP.JLP_12_18