High Prevalence of Hepatitis Delta Virus among Patients with Chronic Hepatitis B Virus Infection and HIV-1 in an Intermediate Hepatitis B Virus Endemic Region

We conducted a study to investigate HIV and hepatitis delta virus (HDV) coinfection among patients with chronic hepatitis B virus (HBV) infection and the triple infection’s (HIV/HBV/HDV) clinical implications in India, an intermediate HBV endemic region, with an estimated HIV-positive population of...

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Main Authors: Shanmugam Saravanan MSc, MPhil, PhD, Vidya Madhavan MSc, PhD, Vijayakumar Velu MSc, PhD, Kailapuri G. Murugavel MSc, PhD, Greer Waldrop BA, Sunil S. Solomon MBBS, MPH, PhD, Pachamuthu Balakrishnan MSc, PhD, Nagalingeswaran Kumarasamy MBBS, PhD, Davey M. Smith MD, Kenneth H. Mayer MD, Suniti Solomon MBBS, MD, Sadras P. Thyagarajan MSc, MD, PhD
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: SAGE Publishing 2014-01-01
Series:Journal of the International Association of Providers of AIDS Care
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1177/2325957413488166