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1406. Hepatitis B and C Prevalence in Patients with Active and Latent Tuberculosis in an Ethnically Diverse Area of London, UK

BACKGROUND: North West London has one of the highest tuberculosis (TB) rates in the UK, at 24.8 per 10,000. The UK prevalence of hepatitis B virus (HBV) is 0.1-0.5% and for hepatitis C virus (HCV) is 0.5-1%. Chronic infection with HBV or HCV can lead to an increased risk of adverse treatment outcome...

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Autores principales: Duret, Amedine, Thorley, Emma, Eni-Olotu, Ayolola, Sikdar, Oishi, Papineni, Padmasayee
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Oxford University Press 2021
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8644422/
http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/ofid/ofab466.1598