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The prevalence of occult hepatitis B virus (hbv) infection in a large multi-ethnic haemodialysis cohort.

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. Green open access

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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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