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Multicenter Study
. 2006 Apr;91(4):554-7.

High prevalence of hepatitis B virus infection in B-cell non-Hodgkin's lymphoma

Fabrizio Marcucci  1 , Alfonso Mele, Enea Spada, Angela Candido, Elvira Bianco, Alessandro Pulsoni, Paola Chionne, Elisabetta Madonna, Rodolfo Cotichini, Anna Barbui, Amalia De Renzo, Fausto Dore, Emilio Iannitto, Vincenzo Liso, Bruno Martino, Marco Montanaro, Livio Pagano, Pellegrino Musto, Maria Rapicetta
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  • PMID: 16585021
Multicenter Study

High prevalence of hepatitis B virus infection in B-cell non-Hodgkin's lymphoma

Fabrizio Marcucci et al. Haematologica. 2006 Apr.

Abstract

In this hospital-based, multicenter case-control study we investigated the prevalence of hepatitis B virus (HBV)-related markers and HBV/hepatitis C virus (HCV) co-infection among B-cell non-Hodgkin's lymphoma (B-NHL) cases and controls. Four hundred newly diagnosed B-NHL cases and 392 controls from other departments of the same hospitals were studied. The prevalence of positivity for hepatitis B surface antigen (HBsAg) was 8.5% among B-NHL cases and 2.8% among controls (adjusted odds ratio, 3.67; 95% confidence interval, 1.75-7.66). HBV/HCV co-infection was found in four cases, but in no controls. The finding of a positive association between HBV infection and B-NHL raises the possibility that HBV may play an etiologic role in the induction of B-NHL.

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