Incidence rates of tuberculosis in chronic hepatitis C infected patients with or without interferon based therapy: a population-based cohort study in Taiwan

BACKGROUND: It is debated whether interferon-based therapy (IBT) would affect the incidence of active tuberculosis (TB) among hepatitis C virus (HCV) infected patients. Although some case reports have demonstrated a possible association, the results are currently inconclusive. Therefore, we conducte...

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Published in:BMC Infect Dis
Main Authors: Lin, Shang-Yi, Chen, Tun-Chieh, Lu, Po-Liang, Lin, Chun-Yu, Lin, Wei-Ru, Yang, Yi-Hsin, Chen, Yen-Hsu
Format: Artigo
Language:Inglês
Published: BioMed Central 2014
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Online Access:https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4307221/
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25523602
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.govhttp://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12879-014-0705-y
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