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Chronic hepatitis B affects 400 million people worldwide and is one of the leading causes of liver-related morbidity and mortality. All clinically available hepatitis B virus (HBV) drugs are nucleoside...
BACKGROUND/AIMS: The aims of the present study were to determine the outcomes of inactive hepatitis B virus (HBV) surface antigen (HBsAg) carriers over a 10-year study period and to elucidate...
Hepatitis viruses are most important cause of acute and chronic hepatitis. In past, hepatitis B virus was one of the major causes of acute hepatitis. Recently, around 60-70% of acute...
Jeong SH, Kim JM, Ahn HJ, Park MJ, Paik KH, Choi W, Kim J, Han CJ, Kim YC, Lee JO, Hong YJ, Park HY, Jeong HH, Yoon MY, Lee M, Lee KH
KMID: 760579
Korean J Hepatol.
2005 Mar;11(1):43-50.
BACKGROUND/AIMS: The prevalence of hepatitis delta virus (HDV) infection has been estimated as being approximately 5% among global HBsAg carriers. The anti-delta positive rate in Koreans had been reported...
The clinical value of an enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay (ELISA) for the detection of anti-HBc IgM was evaluated by testing 202 sera from acute viral hepatitis B (AVHB), hepatitis B (HB),...