Hepatitis D: not a rare disease anymore: global update for 2017-2018

Affiliations

¹ Department of laboratory Medicine, the First Affiliated Hospital of Nanjing Medical University, Nanjing, China.
² Department of Pathology, the First Affiliated Hospital of Nanjing Medical University, Nanjing, China.
³ Department of Internal Medicine Macon, Mercer University School of Medicine, Georgia, USA.

^# Contributed equally.

Comment

Dan-Ting Shen et al. Gut. 2020 Apr.

. 2020 Apr;69(4):786-788.

doi: 10.1136/gutjnl-2019-318691. Epub 2019 Apr 9.

¹ Department of laboratory Medicine, the First Affiliated Hospital of Nanjing Medical University, Nanjing, China.
² Department of Pathology, the First Affiliated Hospital of Nanjing Medical University, Nanjing, China.
³ Department of Internal Medicine Macon, Mercer University School of Medicine, Georgia, USA.

^# Contributed equally.

No abstract available

Keywords: chronic viral hepatitis; epidemiology; hepatitis B; hepatitis D.

Conflict of interest statement

Competing interests: None declared.

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