Sowole, L;
Labbett, W;
Patel, M;
O'Riordan, A;
Cross, J;
Davenport, A;
Haque, T;
(2015)
The prevalence of occult hepatitis B virus (hbv) infection in a large multi-ethnic haemodialysis cohort.
BMC Nephrology
, 16
, Article 12. 10.1186/s12882-015-0010-z.
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Abstract
Haemodialysis patients are at increased risk of exposure to blood borne viruses. To reduce transmission in the UK, all haemodialysis patients are regularly screened, and if susceptible to Hepatitis B virus (HBV) infection, vaccinated.
| Type: | Article |
|---|---|
| Title: | The prevalence of occult hepatitis B virus (hbv) infection in a large multi-ethnic haemodialysis cohort. |
| Location: | England |
| Open access status: | An open access version is available from UCL Discovery |
| DOI: | 10.1186/s12882-015-0010-z |
| Publisher version: | http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12882-015-0010-z |
| Language: | English |
| Additional information: | © 2015 Sowole et al.; licensee BioMed Central. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly credited. The Creative Commons Public Domain Dedication waiver (http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/) applies to the data made available in this article, unless otherwise stated. |
| UCL classification: | UCL UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Life and Medical Sciences UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Life and Medical Sciences > Faculty of Medical Sciences UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Life and Medical Sciences > Faculty of Medical Sciences > Div of Medicine |
| URI: | https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/1464528 |
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