Prevalence and significance of occult hepatitis B in a liver transplant population with chronic hepatitis C.

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Published in Liver Transpl on April 01, 2008

Authors

Kirti Shetty1, Munira Hussain, Lei Nei, K Rajender Reddy, Anna S F Lok

Author Affiliations

1: Division of Transplantation, Georgetown University Hospital, Washington, DC 20007, USA. kirti.shetty@medstar.net

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