Evaluation of Rapid Diagnostic Tests for Assessment of Hepatitis B in Resource-Limited Settings

• Main Authors: James S. Leathers (Author), M. Belen Pisano (Author), Viviana Re (Author), Gertine van Oord (Author), Amir Sultan (Author), Andre Boonstra (Author), Jose D. Debes (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: Ubiquity Press, 2019-07-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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Chronic Hepatitis B (HBV) is the most important cause of liver disease worldwide. There is a need for low-cost tests to aid in diagnosis and management of HBV infection in resource-limited settings. We evaluated the utility of several rapid diagnostic tests (RDT) in three different continents (Europ...