METHODS This study covered 93 naive patients of CHB and hepatitis-B carriers with a history of 1.4 ± 1.0 years. All the subjects and their parents agreed to participate in the study after full explanation of the nature and purpose of the investigation. CHB was diagnosed by clinical, biochemical and serological methods. The patients with [...]
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It is estimated that there are 2 billion HBV sufferers and >350 million HBV carriers throughout the world. Despite the strong polyclonal and multispe-cific CTL and TH1 response in patients who totally recovered from acute hepatitis B, the same responses were either nonexistent, limited or very weak in chronic HBV carriers. Also, it was reported [...]
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More than 1.75 million people, about 1% of the US population, are estimated to be in jails or prisons. Compared to the general population, incarcerated persons have disproportionately high rates of a number of infections, including human immunodeficiency virus (HIV), hepatitis В virus (HBV), tuberculosis, and sexually transmitted diseases. The prison is a setting in [...]
