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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2023 Aug 28.
Published in final edited form as: Gastroenterol Clin North Am. 2019 Apr 1;48(2):259–279. doi: 10.1016/j.gtc.2019.02.007

Figure 7.

Figure 7.

Schematic of the kinetics of viral and serologic findings in hepatitis D virus superinfection of a person with chronic HBV infection. Since hepatitis B surface antigen (HBsAg) serves as the surface envelope protein for HDV, it must be present when HDV RNA is detected. HBV serology as in Figure 4.