PMID: 26793838Jan 23, 2016Paper

THE NEED FOR HBV GENOTYPING: A COST-EFFICIENT APPROACH

Revista medico-chirurgicală̆ a Societă̆ţ̜ii de Medici ş̧i Naturaliş̧ti din Iaş̧i
A S LucaLuminiţa Smaranda Iancu

Abstract

The outcome of chronic HBV infection is variable; approximately one half of individuals transition to an inactive carrier state, 30% progress to cirrhosis, and the remainder to chronic hepatitis. Ten different HBV genotypes and many subtypes have been identified with distinct geographical distributions. Over the years, a lot of studies presented the efficiency of different genotyping methods; for this reason we aimed to present a cost efficient genotyping diagnosis algorithm of CHB infected patients, especially useful to identify those at risk of disease progression and determine optimal anti-viral therapy as useful instrument for physicians.

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