Tuyển tập báo cáo các nghiên cứu khoa học quốc tế ngành y học dành cho các bạn tham khảo đề tài: Survey of both hepatitis B virus (HBsAg) and hepatitis C virus (HCV-Ab) coinfection among HIV positive patients | Virology Journal BioMed Central Research Survey of both hepatitis B virus HBsAg and hepatitis C virus HCV-Ab coinfection among HIV positive patients Mohsen Mohammadi 1 Gholamreza Talei1 Ali Sheikhian2 Farzad Ebrahimzade3 Yadollah Pournia4 Ehsan Ghasemi5 and Hadis Boroun1 Address Department of Microbiology School of Medicine Lorestan University of Medical Sciences Khoram Abad Iran - Departments of Immunology School of Medicine Lorestan of University Medical Sciences Khoram Abad Iran 3Department of Biostatistics School of Medicine Lorestan University of Medical Sciences Khoram Abad Iran 4School of Medicine Lorestan University of Medical Sciences Khoram Abad Iran and 5Department of Microbiology School of Medicine Ilam University of Medical Sciences Ilam Iran Email Mohsen Mohammadi - mohamadi_77@ GholamrezaTalei - taleireza@ Ali Sheikhian - sheikhiana@ Farzad Ebrahimzade - biostatistician2002@ Yadollah Pournia - ypournia@ Ehsan Ghasemi - esan_gh@ Hadis Boroun - broun_h@ Corresponding author Open Access Published 18 November 2009 Virology Journal 2009 6 202 doi I743-422X-6-202 Received 5 September 2009 Accepted 18 November 2009 This article is available from http content 6 1 202 2009 Mohammadi et al licensee BioMed Central Ltd. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License http licenses by which permits unrestricted use distribution and reproduction in any medium provided the original work is properly cited. Abstract Background HIV HBVand HCV is major public health concerns. Because of shared routes of transmission HIV-HCV coinfection and HIV-HBV coinfection are common. HIV-positive individuals are at risk of coinfection with HBV and HCV infections. The prevalence rates of coinfection with HBV and HCV in HIV-patients have been variable worldwide depending on the geographic regions and the type of .