Quantification of HBV core antibodies may help revisit infectious occult hepatitis B virus

Hung-Chih Yang¹, Jia-Horng Kao^{2

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Affiliations

¹ Department of Microbiology, National Taiwan University College of Medicine, Taipei, Taiwan.
² Graduate Institute of Clinical Medicine, National Taiwan University College of Medicine, Taipei, Taiwan.
³ Department of Internal Medicine, National Taiwan University Hospital, Taipei, Taiwan.

Comment

Hung-Chih Yang et al. Gut. 2019 Nov.

. 2019 Nov;68(11):2095.

doi: 10.1136/gutjnl-2018-317385. Epub 2018 Oct 9.

Hung-Chih Yang¹, Jia-Horng Kao^{2

3}

¹ Department of Microbiology, National Taiwan University College of Medicine, Taipei, Taiwan.
² Graduate Institute of Clinical Medicine, National Taiwan University College of Medicine, Taipei, Taiwan.
³ Department of Internal Medicine, National Taiwan University Hospital, Taipei, Taiwan.

No abstract available

Keywords: hepatitis B.

Conflict of interest statement

Competing interests: None declared.

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