Sustained remission of chronic hepatitis C after acute hepatitis B superinfection

Scandinavian Journal of Infectious Diseases

Volumn 38, Issue 9, 2006, Pages 818-821

  Jessner, Wolfgang ^a   Strasser, Michael ^b   Graziadei, Ivo ^a   Berr, Frieder ^b   Vogel, Wolfgang ^a  

^a INNSBRUCK MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Austria)

^b St Johanns Spital   (Austria)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HEPATITIS A VACCINE; HEPATITIS B VACCINE; HEPATITIS B(E) ANTIGEN; HEPATITIS C ANTIBODY; VIRUS RNA;

ACUTE HEPATITIS; ADULT; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; FOLLOW UP; GENOTYPE; HEPATITIS A; HEPATITIS B; HEPATITIS B VIRUS; HEPATITIS C; HEPATITIS C VIRUS; HUMAN; INTRAVENOUS DRUG ABUSE; JAUNDICE; MALE; REMISSION; SEROCONVERSION; SUPERINFECTION; VACCINATION; VIRUS IMMUNITY;

ADULT; HEPATITIS B; HEPATITIS C, CHRONIC; HUMANS; MALE; REMISSION, SPONTANEOUS; SUBSTANCE ABUSE, INTRAVENOUS; SUPERINFECTION;

EID: 33748116185     PISSN: 00365548     EISSN: 16511980     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/00365540600606523     Document Type: Article

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