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01-05-2014 | Poster presentation
Comparative evaluation of baseline characteristics of HIV mono infected and HIV/HBV co infected cohort in eastern India
Authors:
Jayeeta Sarkar, Debraj Saha, Bibhuti Saha, Bhaswati Bandyopadhyay, Runu Chakrabarty, Subhasish Kamal Guha
Published in:
BMC Infectious Diseases
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Special Issue 3/2014
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Excerpt
India has the third largest estimated number of HIV infected people and 40 million individuals in India are estimated to be Hepatitis B virus infected. In comparison to HBV mono-infection, the course of chronic HBV infection is more accelerated in HIV/HBV co-infected subjects. We analyzed the baseline characteristics of the HIV/HBV co-infected and HIV mono-infected patients. …