Differences in delta virus hepatitis diagnosis methods and its effect on the hepatitis D prevalence

Affiliations

¹ Department of Laboratory Medicine, the First Affiliated Hospital of Nanjing Medical University, Nanjing, China.
² Department of Internal Medicine, Wright Center for Graduate Medical Education, Scranton, Pennsylvania, USA.
³ Department of Laboratory Medicine, the First Affiliated Hospital of Nanjing Medical University, Nanjing, China huaguoxu@njmu.edu.cn.

Comment

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

. 2020 Oct;69(10):1893.

doi: 10.1136/gutjnl-2019-320159. Epub 2019 Nov 12.

¹ Department of Laboratory Medicine, the First Affiliated Hospital of Nanjing Medical University, Nanjing, China.
² Department of Internal Medicine, Wright Center for Graduate Medical Education, Scranton, Pennsylvania, USA.
³ Department of Laboratory Medicine, the First Affiliated Hospital of Nanjing Medical University, Nanjing, China huaguoxu@njmu.edu.cn.

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Keywords: hepatitis D.

Conflict of interest statement

Competing interests: None declared.

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