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The prevalence of occult hepatitis B virus (hbv) infection in a large multi-ethnic haemodialysis cohort

BACKGROUND: Haemodialysis patients are at increased risk of exposure to blood borne viruses. To reduce transmission in the UK, all haemodialysis patients are regularly screened, and if susceptible to Hepatitis B virus (HBV) infection, vaccinated. METHODS: This retrospective study was undertaken to d...

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Autores principales: Sowole, Luciana, Labbett, Wendy, Patel, Mauli, O’Riordan, Aisling, Cross, Jennifer, Davenport, Andrew, Haque, Tanzina
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2015
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4352542/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25884422
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12882-015-0010-z