The findings of Mason et al. 1 on diabetes mellitus and hepatitis C are similar to our own, reported at the 8th European Congress of Clinical Microbiology and Infectious Diseases. 2 In our study, diabetes was found in 34.7% and 2.7% of chronic hepatitis C and chronic hepatitis B patients, respective
Diabetes mellitus and chronic hepatitis C virus infection
β Scribed by Stephanos Hadziyannis; Basil Karamanos
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons
- Year
- 1999
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 30 KB
- Volume
- 29
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0270-9139
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