Occult hepatitis B in high-risk patients needs more attention
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Occult hepatitis B in high-risk patients needs more attention.
I read with interest the recently published article by Ramezani et al. [1] in your journal. The issue is important but all the aspects and clinical importance of the study are not clear. According to an international workshop on occult hepatitis B virus infection (OBI) in 2008 [2], OBI is defined as the presence of HBV DNA in the liver (with detectable or undetectable HBV DNA in the serum) of i...
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عنوان ژورنال: The Journal of Infection in Developing Countries
سال: 2010
ISSN: 1972-2680
DOI: 10.3855/jidc.1725