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Chronic hepatitis B: diagnosis, monitoring and management
Author(s) -
Hudson Ben,
Collins Peter
Publication year - 2014
Publication title -
prescriber
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.106
H-Index - 3
eISSN - 1931-2253
pISSN - 0959-6682
DOI - 10.1002/psb.1272
Subject(s) - medicine , chronic hepatitis , intensive care medicine , disease , virus , hepatitis a virus , virology
Hepatitis B is a blood‐borne DNA virus and chronic disease is defined as failure to clear the virus within six months of initial infection. Here, the authors discuss at‐risk groups and outline diagnosis, monitoring and treatment.