| true prevalence of twin hdv-hbv infection in pakistan: a molecular approach. | hepatitis delta virus (hdv) infects only patients that are already infected by hepatitis b virus (hbv) because this is sub satellite virus which depends on and propagate only in the presence of hbv. hdv causes co-infection or super infection with sever complication as compared to only hbv infection. no study on molecular level on hdv is available from this region; therefore, the aim of this study was to found out the molecular epidemiology of hdv (as a co-infection with hbv) in different geograp ... | 2011 | 21888671 |