Impact of occult hepatitis B virus infection on efficacy and prognosis of interferon-α therapy for patients with chronic hepatitis C
✍ Scribed by Izumi Hasegawa; Etsuro Orito; Yasuhito Tanaka; Noboru Hirashima; Kenji Sakakibara; Mayumi Sakurai; Seiji Suzuki; Fuminaka Sugauchi; Tomoyoshi Ohno; Ryuzo Ueda; Masashi Mizokami
- Book ID
- 111237480
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons
- Year
- 2005
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 129 KB
- Volume
- 25
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0106-9543
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## Abstract The prevalence of occult hepatitis B, defined by absence of HBsAg and HBV DNA, ranges widely in patients with hepatitis C. This may influence the treatment of hepatitis C and the severity of liver disease. Sensitive and specific real‐time PCR techniques are available commercially and ca