Successful treatment of activated occult hepatitis B in a non-responder chronic hepatitis C patient

Abstract

We reported a 23 years old male with chronic hepatitis C virus infection, discontinued from pegylated interferon/ribavirin combination therapy due to a lack of early virological response. He has developed activation of occult hepatitis B virus that was successfully treated by a one year of lamivudine therapy. © 2011 Emara and Radwan; licensee BioMed Central Ltd.