Rate of occult hepatitis B virus infection among individuals with tuberculosis in northeastern Iran: A molecular epidemiological study

• Main Authors: Sanaz Ahmadi Ghezeldasht (Author), Saman Soleimanpour (Author), Mohammad Reza Hedayati-Moghaddam (Author), Moein Farshchian (Author), Seyed Abdolrahim Rezaee (Author), Arman Mosavat (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: Elsevier, 2023-06-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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One third of the world population has a history of exposure to the hepatitis B virus (HBV), and two billion people are infected with latent tuberculosis (TB). Occult hepatitis B infection (OBI) is defined as the presence of replicative-competent HBV DNA in the liver with detectable or undetectable H...