No molecular evidence of Hepatitis E infection among patients with HIV in Iran

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  • Ahmad Tavakoli Department of Virology, School of Medicine, Iran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran.
  • Davod Javanmard Department of Virology, School of Medicine, Iran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran.
  • Hadi Ghaffari Department of Virology, School of Medicine, Iran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran.
  • Hamidreza Mollaei Department of Microbiology and Virology, School of Medicine, Kerman University of Medical Sciences, Kerman, Iran.
  • Helya Sadat Mortazavi Department of Virology, School of Medicine, Iran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran.
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volume 31  issue 1

pages  893- 895

publication date 2017-01

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