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SUBMITTER: Maponga TG
PROVIDER: S-EPMC7308798 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Jul
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Maponga Tongai G TG McNaughton Anna L AL van Schalkwyk Marije M Hugo Susan S Nwankwo Chikezie C Taljaard Jantjie J Mokaya Jolynne J Smith David A DA van Vuuren Cloete C Goedhals Dominique D Gabriel Shiraaz S Andersson Monique I MI Preiser Wolfgang W van Rensburg Christo C Matthews Philippa C PC
The Journal of infection 20200501 1
<h4>Objectives</h4>Prompted by international targets for elimination of hepatitis B virus (HBV), we set out to characterise individuals with HBV monoinfection vs. those coinfected with HBV/HIV, to evaluate the impact of therapy and to guide improvements in clinical care.<h4>Methods</h4>We report observational data from a real world cross-sectional cohort of 115 adults with chronic hepatitis B infection (CHB), at a university hospital in Cape Town, South Africa. HIV coinfection was present in 39 ...[more]