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

• Hoofdauteurs: Sanaz Ahmadi Ghezeldasht (Auteur), Saman Soleimanpour (Auteur), Mohammad Reza Hedayati-Moghaddam (Auteur), Moein Farshchian (Auteur), Seyed Abdolrahim Rezaee (Auteur), Arman Mosavat (Auteur)
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• Gepubliceerd in: Elsevier, 2023-06-01T00:00:00Z.
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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...