Journal:
:hepatitis monthly
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shahnaz sali infectious diseases and tropical medicine research center, shahid beheshti university of medical sciences, tehran, ir iran; infectious diseases and tropical medicine research center, shahid beheshti university of medical sciences, tehran, ir iran. tel: +98-9123067784, fax: +98-2122546026
seyed moayed alavian baqiyatallah research center for gastroenterology and liver disease, tehran, ir iran
graham r foster queen mary, university of london, the liver unit, london, uk
hossein keyvani department of virology, tehran university of medical science, tehran, ir iran
leila mehrnoosh baqiyatallah research center for gastroenterology and liver disease, tehran, ir iran
navid mohammadi department of community medicine, faculty of medicine, tehran university of medical sciences, tehran, ir iran
background hepatitis b virus (hbv) is one of the most common chronic viral infections in the world. iran has a low to intermediate hbv prevalence and approximately 1.5 million people are living with hbv infection. the impact of hbv in iran is unknown and given the very low levels of alcohol consumption, this region provides an opportunity to examine the impact of isolated chronic hbv infection....
