Journal:
:archives of clinical infectious diseases
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afshin hooshyar department of gastroenterology, imam khomeini hospital, ardabil university of medical sciences, ardabil, ir iran
shahram habibzadeh department of infectious disease, imam khomeini hospital, ardabil university of medical sciences, ardabil, ir iran; department of infectious disease, imam khomeini hospital, ardabil university of medical sciences, ardabil, ir iran. tel: +98-9144519670, fax: +98-4515510057
nasrin ghasemi department of internal medicine, imam khomeini hospital, ardabil university of medical sciences, ardabil, ir iran
abbas yazdanbod department of gastroenterology, imam khomeini hospital, ardabil university of medical sciences, ardabil, ir iran
sirus sohrabi department of emergency medicine, shahid beheshti university of medical sciences, tehran, ir iran
nasrollah maleki department of internal medicine, imam khomeini hospital, ardabil university of medical sciences, ardabil, ir iran
background: more than 350 million people are chronic carriers of hepatitis b virus (hbv) and because of the high hbv-related morbidity and mortality, the global disease burden of hbv is substantial. in patients with hbeag–negative chronic hepatitis b (chb) with serum alanine aminotransferase (alt) levels, 1-2 × upper limit of normal (uln) and hbv dna load of 10000 to 100000 copies/ml, liver bio...
