Antibody to hepatitis B core antigen as a screening test for occult hepatitis B virus infection in Egyptian chronic hepatitis C patients
β Scribed by Assem El-Sherif; Mohamed Abou-Shady; Hany Abou-Zeid; Ahmed Elwassief; Ashraf Elbahrawy; Yoshihide Ueda; Tsutomu Chiba; Abdel-Moneim Hosney
- Publisher
- Springer Japan
- Year
- 2009
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 164 KB
- Volume
- 44
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0944-1174
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