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Close Monitoring of Hepatitis B Surface Antigen Levels Helps Classify Flares During Peginterferon Th...

Close Monitoring of Hepatitis B Surface Antigen Levels Helps Classify Flares During Peginterferon Th...

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Close Monitoring of Hepatitis B Surface Antigen Levels Helps Classify Flares During Peginterferon Therapy and Predicts Treatment Response

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Close Monitoring of Hepatitis B Surface Antigen Levels Helps Classify Flares During Peginterferon Therapy and Predicts Treatment Response

Publisher

Oxford: Oxford University Press

Journal title

Clinical infectious diseases, 2013-01, Vol.56 (1), p.100-105

Language

English

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Oxford: Oxford University Press

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Contents

Background. Alanine aminotransferase (ALT) flares occur frequently during peginterferon (PEG-IFN) therapy. We related occurrence of flares to presence of precore (PC) and/or basal core promoter (BCP) mutants and studied kinetics of hepatitis B e antigen (HBeAg) and hepatitis B surface antigen (HBsAg) levels during flares. Methods. Fifty of 214 (23%...

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Close Monitoring of Hepatitis B Surface Antigen Levels Helps Classify Flares During Peginterferon Therapy and Predicts Treatment Response

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TN_cdi_pubmedcentral_primary_oai_pubmedcentral_nih_gov_3518882

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https://devfeature-collection.sl.nsw.gov.au/record/TN_cdi_pubmedcentral_primary_oai_pubmedcentral_nih_gov_3518882

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ISSN

1058-4838

E-ISSN

1537-6591

DOI

10.1093/cid/cis859

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