Is hepatitis C virus positivity a contributing factor to occult hepatitis B virus infection in hemodialysis patients?

Digestive Diseases and Sciences

Volumn 51, Issue 11, 2006, Pages 1962-1966

  Kanbay, Mehmet ^a   Gur, Gurden ^a   Akcay, Ali ^a   Selcuk, Haldun ^a   Yilmaz, Ugur ^a   Arslan, Hande ^a   Boyacioglu, Sedat ^a   Ozdemir, Fatma Nurhan ^a  

^a BASKENT UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

Author keywords

HCV infection; Hemodialysis; Occult HBV infection

Indexed keywords

ALANINE AMINOTRANSFERASE; ASPARTATE AMINOTRANSFERASE; HEPATITIS C ANTIBODY; VIRUS DNA;

ADULT; AGED; ALANINE AMINOTRANSFERASE BLOOD LEVEL; ANTIBODY DETECTION; ARTICLE; ASPARTATE AMINOTRANSFERASE BLOOD LEVEL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA DETERMINATION; FEMALE; HEMODIALYSIS PATIENT; HEPATITIS B; HEPATITIS B VIRUS; HEPATITIS C; HEPATITIS C VIRUS; HUMAN; INFECTION RISK; LONG TERM CARE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAL PARAMETERS; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RISK FACTOR; SERODIAGNOSIS; SEROPREVALENCE; TREATMENT DURATION;

ADULT; AGED; COMORBIDITY; CROSS INFECTION; DNA, VIRAL; FEMALE; HEPATITIS B; HEPATITIS B SURFACE ANTIGENS; HEPATITIS B VIRUS; HUMANS; KIDNEY FAILURE, CHRONIC; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PREVALENCE; RENAL DIALYSIS; VIREMIA;

EID: 33751537704     PISSN: 01632116     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10620-006-9421-9     Document Type: Article

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