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This study was supported by a grant from Roche.

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  1. Department of Medicine, Lagos State University Teaching Hospital, Lagos, Nigeria

    C. A. Onyekwere & F. Duro-Emmanuel

  2. Department of Human Virology, Nigeria Institute of Medical Research, Lagos, Nigeria

    R. A. Audu & F. A. Ige

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  1. C. A. Onyekwere
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Part of this work was presented as a poster during the EASL Monothematic Conference in Istanbul, Turkey in September 2010.

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Onyekwere, C.A., Audu, R.A., Duro-Emmanuel, F. et al. Hepatitis D infection in Nigeria. Indian J Gastroenterol 31, 34–35 (2012). https://doi.org/10.1007/s12664-011-0158-9

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