| the prevalence of occult hepatitis b virus in the hemodialysis patients in yazd, iran. | occult hbv infection of hemodialysis (hd) patients is informative in terms of virus transmission. it may be of clinical importance in hd patients. the aim of this study was to investigate the prevalence of anti-hbc in the hd patients. number of 126 patients undergoing hemodialysis were included in this study from main hemodialysis units in yazd. hepatitis b surface antigens (hbsag), hepatitis b core antibody (anti-hbc) were examined in all subjects. finally, stored serum samples from anti-hbcab ... | 2016 | 28120590 |
| detection of senv virus in healthy, hepatitis b- and hepatitis c-infected individuals in yazd province, iran. | sen virus (senv) is the latest virus proposed as a cause of unknown hepatitis cases. among nine detected genotypes of the virus, genotypes d and h are more frequent in hepatitis cases of unknown origin. the aim of this study was to determine the frequency of senv-d and senv-h genotypes in the sera of healthy individuals and hepatitis b and c patients. | 2016 | 26948255 |