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Victoria,Flamir da Silva; Oliveira,Cintia Mara Costa de; Victoria,Marilu Barbieri; Victoria,Cristian Barbieri; Ferreira,Luis Carlos Lima. |
The present study was conducted with 55 patients native from western Brazilian Amazonia, who were HBV-DNA positive after seroconversion of HBeAg. It is a descriptive case study, with the patients separated into two groups: with hepatitis and without hepatitis on histological examination. The aim of the present study was to describe the clinical and molecular characteristics of patients who are chronic carriers of HBsAg. The prevalence of hepatitis was 63.64%, with a predominance of males (41.82%) and a mean age of 42.5 years, occurring mostly in natives of the southeast sub-region (32.73%). Time was a variable proportional to the course of the disease and the most frequent symptoms were: dyspepsia, asthenia and loss of libido with the majority of the... |
Tipo: Info:eu-repo/semantics/article |
Palavras-chave: HBeAg-negative chronic hepatitis B; Western Brazilian Amazonia; Mutations. |
Ano: 2008 |
URL: http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S1413-86702008000100008 |
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