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Lung-Yi Mak^{1

2}, Man-Fung Yuen^{1

2}

Affiliations

¹ Department of Medicine, Queen Mary Hospital, The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, Hong Kong.
² State Key Laboratory for Liver Research, The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, Hong Kong.

Comment

Lung-Yi Mak et al. Hepatology. 2021 Jul.

. 2021 Jul;74(1):533-534.

doi: 10.1002/hep.31689.

Lung-Yi Mak^{1

2}, Man-Fung Yuen^{1

2}

¹ Department of Medicine, Queen Mary Hospital, The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, Hong Kong.
² State Key Laboratory for Liver Research, The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, Hong Kong.

No abstract available

Comment on

Letter to the Editor: Can the Ratio of Serum HBV RNA to DNA Reflect the Reverse-Transcription Efficiency of Viral pgRNA?
Li W, Deng R, Liu S, Guo H, Sun J. Li W, et al. Hepatology. 2021 Jul;74(1):532-533. doi: 10.1002/hep.31691. Hepatology. 2021. PMID: 33368419 No abstract available.

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