Clinical Liver Disease

Viral hepatitis B coinfection with human immunodeficiency virus, hepatitis D virus, or hepatitis C virus - Tuyet A. T. Nguyen and Richard K. Sterling – Article Reading

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Patients with chronic Hepatitis B may also have concomitant infection with hepatitis delta virus (HDV), human immuno-deficiency virus (HIV), and/or hepatitis C virus (HCV). Because of the potential for coinfection, patients who are diagnosed with HBV therefore should be tested for their presence. Drs. Nguyen and Sterling review the essentials of diagnosis and management of the coinfected patient.