F Dehghani-Dehej, Z Hosseini, P Mortazkar… - Future …, 2020 - Taylor & Francis
Aim: HIV-infected patients risk coinfection with HBV and HCV. This study aimed to investigate molecular epidemiology of HBV and HCV coinfection in Iranian HIV-infected …
F Azmoudeh-Ardalan… - Iranian Biomedical …, 2021 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Background: Based on evidence, HIV and HBV have common transmission routes; co- infection of HBV/HIV can dramatically increase disease progression. The present study …
HA Osman, HF Hetta, AM El-Adly… - Infectious Diseases in …, 2022 - journals.lww.com
Results More than half of them (n= 170, 53.1%) exhibited positive HBV-DNA in PBMCs. The mean logarithm 10 of quantitative HBV-DNA by PCR in PBMCs was (5.1±0.3 IU/mL) …
T he human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) infects 37.9 million people worldwide and is a significant global health concern (1, 2). HIV infection reduces T lymphocyte CD4+ cells and …
Occult hepatitis B (OBI) is a major challenging clinical entity characterized by the absence of hepatitis B surface antigen (HBsAg). The persistence of OBI may progress to fibrosis …
Background: Hepatitis B virus (HBV) is responsible for chronic hepatitis B (CHB) and liver diseases. In the event of seroclearance or seroconversion, hepatitis B surface antigen …