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Epidemiological and virological features of HBV infection in HIV-2 infected patients living in southeastern France.

Colson P, Henry M, Motte A, Gallais H, Moreau J, Poizot-Martin I, Tamalet C

Laboratoire de Virologie, Fédération Hospitalière de Bactériologie-Virologie Clinique et d’Hygiène, CHRU Timone, 264 rue Saint-Pierre, 13385, Marseille cedex 05, France.

We studied HBV infection in 34 HIV-2-infected patients followed-up in Marseilles. Ten (29%) patients were chronically-infected with HBV, which represents a three-times higher rate than in HIV-1-infected patients in Europe. HBV occult infection was diagnosed in two patients. HBV genotype E was found in seven patients; its specificities and the reciprocal influence of HIV-2/HBV-co-infection remain to be evaluated.

Published 18 October 2006 in Eur J Epidemiol, 21(8): 615-618.
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