Al-Azhar Assiut Medical Journal (Jan 2016)

Impact of dual hepatitis B and C infection on disease severity and treatment outcome: updated review

  • Gamal Esmat,
  • Tamer Elbaz

DOI
https://doi.org/10.4103/1687-1693.208929
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 14, no. 4
pp. 149 – 152

Abstract

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Hepatitis B, C are commonly present together. They both share same routes of transmission. Dual infection carries a wide, variable range of virological, clinical profiles. Even in terms of management, large debates arose due to related issues such as priority for treatment, fate of the second virus if the primary one is eradicated.

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