Occult hepatitis C virus infection in patients with autoimmune hepatitis

Hepatitis Monthly

Volumn 14, Issue 8, 2014, Pages

  Zavareh, Mohammad Saeid Rezaee ^a,b   Alavian, Seyed Moayed ^b   Karimisari, Hamidreza ^a   Shafiei, Mostafa ^b   Hosseini, Seyed Yasser Saiedi ^b  

^a BAQIYATALLAH UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (Iran)

^b Middle East Liver Diseases Center   (Iran)

Author keywords

Autoimmune Hepatitis; Clinical laboratory technique; Diagnosis; Hepatitis C virus; Infection; Prevalence

Indexed keywords

EID: 84940328130     PISSN: 1735143X     EISSN: 17353408     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5812/hepatmon.16089     Document Type: Article

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