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The gamma-glutamyl transpeptidase to platelet ratio (GPR) shows poor correlation with transient elastography measurements of liver fibrosis in HIV-positive patients with chronic hepatitis B in West Africa. Response to: ‘The gamma-glutamyl transpeptidase to platelet ratio (GPR) predicts significant liver fibrosis and cirrhosis in patients with chronic HBV infection in West Africa’ by Lemoine et al

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  • Alexander J Stockdale Department of Clinical Infection, Microbiology and Immunology, Institute of Infection & Global Health, University of Liverpool, Liverpool, UK PubMed articlesGoogle scholar articles
  • Richard Odame Phillips Department of Medicine, Kwame Nkrumah University of Science & Technology, Kumasi, Ghana Komfo Anokye Teaching Hospital, Kumasi, Ghana PubMed articlesGoogle scholar articles
  • Anna Maria Geretti Department of Clinical Infection, Microbiology and Immunology, Institute of Infection & Global Health, University of Liverpool, Liverpool, UK PubMed articlesGoogle scholar articles
  1. Correspondence to Professor Anna Maria Geretti, Department of Clinical Infection, Microbiology and Immunology, Institute of Infection and Global Health, University of Liverpool, Liverpool, L69 7BE, UK; geretti{at}liverpool.ac.uk
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Stockdale AJ, Phillips RO, Geretti AM On behalf of the HEPIK Study Group
The gamma-glutamyl transpeptidase to platelet ratio (GPR) shows poor correlation with transient elastography measurements of liver fibrosis in HIV-positive patients with chronic hepatitis B in West Africa. Response to: ‘The gamma-glutamyl transpeptidase to platelet ratio (GPR) predicts significant liver fibrosis and cirrhosis in patients with chronic HBV infection in West Africa’ by Lemoine et al

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  • Received November 19, 2015
  • Accepted November 25, 2015
  • First published January 4, 2016.
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October 26, 2017

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