Occult hepatitis B virus infection: A major concern in HIV-infected patients

摘要: ARTICLE INFO Human immunodeficiency virus (HIV)- infected patients are at risk of acquiring viral hepatitis, due to common routes transmission. As the introduction highly active antiretroviral therapy (HAART) reduced frequency opportunistic infections and improved survival, hepatitis emerged as an important cause morbidity mortality in HIV-infected cases. Occult B (HBV) infection is characterized by presence HBV without detectable surface antigen (HBsAg). There conflicting reports on impact occult natural history HIV disease. In this review, we described findings studies co-infection with focus prevalence infection. The results review demonstrated importance prevention, diagnosis treatment HIV-positive patients.