Epidemiological, clinical and histological characteristics of HBV/HDV co-infection: a retrospective cross-sectional study in Guangdong, China.

Epidemiological, clinical and histological characteristics of HBV/HDV co-infection: a retrospective cross-sectional study in Guangdong, China.

The epidemiology of hepatitis D virus (HDV) in China is fairly unknown. The mechanisms whereby HDV leads to accelerated liver disease in hepatitis B virus (HBV)/HDV co-infected patients and the histological characteristics of chronic hepatitis D (CHD) patients need further investigation.The prevalen...

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Main Authors: Baolin Liao, Fuchun Zhang, Siwei Lin, Haolan He, Yu Liu, Jiansheng Zhang, Ying Xu, Junqing Yi, Yunqing Chen, Huiyuan Liu, Zhanhui Wang, Weiping Cai
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2014-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC4274124?pdf=render

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