Clinical Characteristics of patients with chronic HBV and HCV dual-infection and treated with peg-IFN-a/RBV therapy.

ALT, AST, Median, Mann-Whitney U test; Gender, Fibrosis stage, HBV DNA, HBV Genotype, HBeAb State, and HCV genotype, Chi-square test.*Only 21 patients had Fibrosis stage by ultrasound guided percutaneous liver biopsies, and the chi-square test performed between fibrosis stages F0-2 and F3-4.$: Clinical diagnosis of cirrhosis was based on repeated ultrasound clinical criteria or signs of portal hypertension [33].