Chronic hepatitis B in Asia—new insights from the past decade
✍ Scribed by Henry Lik-Yuen Chan; Jidong Jia
- Book ID
- 108953943
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons
- Year
- 2011
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 116 KB
- Volume
- 26
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0815-9319
No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.
📜 SIMILAR VOLUMES
## Abstract Sera from 20 Chinese patients with chronic hepatitis B were examined for hepatitis B e antigen and hepatitis B virus (HBV) DNA. There was considerable discordance with HBV DNA not being detectable in 10 out of 13 (77%) patients who were hepatitis B e antigen positive. Further testing fo
BACKGROUND: Available treatments for hepatitis B e antigen (HBeAg)-negative chronic hepatitis B are associated with poor sustained responses. As a result, nucleoside and nucleotide analogues are typically continued indefinitely, a strategy associated with the risk of resistance and unknown long-term