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. 2023 Oct;21(11):2975-2977.e1.
doi: 10.1016/j.cgh.2022.10.033. Epub 2022 Nov 11.

High Burden of Undiagnosed Hepatitis B and Liver Disease in an Urban Emergency Department-Baltimore, 2020

Richard Wang  1 , Richard E Rothman  2 , Amir M Mohareb  3 , Oliver Laeyendecker  4 , Gavin A Cloherty  5 , Thomas C Quinn  4 , Yu-Hsiang Hsieh  6 ; Johns Hopkins COVID-19 Emergency Medicine Investigators
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High Burden of Undiagnosed Hepatitis B and Liver Disease in an Urban Emergency Department-Baltimore, 2020

Richard Wang et al. Clin Gastroenterol Hepatol. 2023 Oct.
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Potential Competing Interests: MA, MS, and GAC are employees and shareholders of Abbott. All other authors report no potential no conflicts of interest.

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Figure:. Flowchart of ED-based seroprevalence study of HBsAg, Baltimore 2020
Footnotes: Flow chart showing how the HBsAg seropositive group was determined, as well as the prevalence of no prior diagnosis of HBV, elevated aminotransferases, history of chronic liver disease, HIV Ag/Ab-positivity, and HCV Ab/RNA-positivity within the HBsAg seropositive group
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