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Characteristics of escape mutations from occult hepatitis B virus infected patients with hematological malignancies in South Egypt
Abeer Elkady, Sayuki Iijima, Sahar Aboulfotuh, Elsayed Mostafa Ali, Douaa Sayed, Nashwa M Abdel-Aziz, Amany M Ali, Shuko Murakami, Masanori Isogawa, Yasuhito Tanaka
Abeer Elkady, Department of Clinical and Chemical Pathology, Medical School of South Valley University, Qena 83523, Egypt
Abeer Elkady, Sayuki Iijima, Shuko Murakami, Masanori Isogawa, Yasuhito Tanaka, Department of Virology and Liver Unit, Nagoya City University Graduate School of Medical Sciences, Nagoya 467-8601, Japan
Sahar Aboulfotuh, Department of Clinical and Chemical Pathology, Medical School of Sohag University, Sohag 82524, Egypt
Elsayed Mostafa Ali, Department of Medical Oncology, Medical School of Sohag University, Sohag 82524, Egypt
Douaa Sayed, Department of Clinical and Chemical Pathology, South Egypt Cancer Institute, Assuti 71515, Egypt
Nashwa M Abdel-Aziz, Amany M Ali, Department of Medical Oncology, South Egypt Cancer Institue, Assuit 71515, Egypt
Author contributions: Elkady A and Iijima S contributed equally to this work; Elkady A, Iijima S and Tanaka Y designed the study, directed its implementation, supervised all of the field activities and contributed to the analysis and interpretation of the data as well as to the redaction of the manuscript; Aboulfotuh S, Mostafa Ali E, Sayed D, Abdel-Aziz NM and Ali AM contributed to the collection of the materials and patient data; Murakami S and Isogawa M read the draft and approved the data.
Supported by Japan Society for the Promotion of Science, No. 15H05289.
Institutional review board statement: The study was reviewed and approved by the South Egypt Cancer Institute (Egypt).
Informed consent statement: All study participants, or their legal guardian, provided informed written consent prior to study enrollment.
Conflict-of-interest statement: Authors do not have any financial or personal relationship with other people or organizations that could inappropriately influence their work.
Data sharing statement: No additional data are available.
Open-Access: This article is an open-access article which was selected by an in-house editor and fully peer-reviewed by external reviewers. It is distributed in accordance with the Creative Commons Attribution Non Commercial (CC BY-NC 4.0) license, which permits others to distribute, remix, adapt, build upon this work non-commercially, and license their derivative works on different terms, provided the original work is properly cited and the use is non-commercial. See: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/
Correspondence to: Yasuhito Tanaka, MD, PhD, Department of Virology and Liver Unit, Nagoya City University Graduate School of Medical Sciences, 467-8601 Kawasumi, Mizuho, Nagoya 467-8601, Japan. ytanaka@med.nagoya-cu.ac.jp
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Received: June 8, 2016
Peer-review started: June 13, 2016
First decision: July 20, 2016
Revised: September 19, 2016
Accepted: December 13, 2016
Article in press: December 14, 2016
Published online: March 28, 2017
