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Detection of hepatitis B virus DNA in ascitic fluid of decompensated cirrhotic patients

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We are highly thankful to our hospital and laboratory staff members; as without their help, this study could not have been completed.

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  1. Department of Medicine, King George’s Medical University, Lucknow, 226 003, India

    Shiv Pratap Singh, Ajay Kumar Patwa, M. L. Patel, Harish Gupta, Virendra Atam & Sudhir Kumar Verma

  2. Department of Microbiology, King George’s Medical University, Lucknow, 226 003, India

    Amita Jain & Suruchi Shukla

  3. Department of Medical Gastroenterology, King George’s Medical University, Lucknow, 226 003, India

    Sumit Rungta

  4. Department of Surgical Gastroenterology, King George’s Medical University, Lucknow, 226 003, India

    Abhijit Chandra

  5. Department of Community Medicine and Public Health, King George’s Medical University, Lucknow, 226 003, India

    Abhishek Singh

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Ajay Kumar Patwa: concept design, data collection, analysis, manuscript writing; analysis, manuscript writing; Shiv Pratap Singh: data collection, M L Patel: manuscript writing, critical analysis of data; Virendra Atam: manuscript writing, critical analysis of data; Harish Gupta: manuscript writing, critical analysis of data; Sudhir Kumar Verma: manuscript writing, critical analysis of data; Amita Jain: microbiological analysis; Suruchi Shukla: microbiological analysis; Sumit Rungta: manuscript writing, critical analysis of data; Abhijit Chandra: manuscript writing, critical analysis of data; Abhishek Singh: data analysis, manuscript writing.

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SPS, AKP, MLP, HG, VA, SKV, AJ, SS, SR, AC, and AS declare no competing interests.

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The project was approved by the ethical committee of King George’s Medical University, Chowk, Lucknow, India (No.148/Ethics/2021, dated 02–02-2021). Written informed consent for collection of ascitic fluid and blood was taken from each patient. The study was performed as per the guidelines of Helsinki Declaration and the Guideline for Good Clinical Practice. This article does not contain any study with animals performed by any of the authors. Any issue related to plant reproducibility was not involved with the article.

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Singh, S.P., Patwa, A.K., Patel, M.L. et al. Detection of hepatitis B virus DNA in ascitic fluid of decompensated cirrhotic patients. Indian J Gastroenterol 42, 585–588 (2023). https://doi.org/10.1007/s12664-023-01380-6

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