anti HBc
The prevalence and significance of isolated hepatitis B core antibody (anti HBc) in endemic population
... isolated anti-HBc, who have had an exposure to HBV in their ...Thus, anti-HBc test should be included in every routine Hepatitis B ...isolated anti-HBc in the absence of ...
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Enzyme immunoassay for anti hepatitis B core (HBc) immunoglobulin G1 and significance of low level results in competitive assays for anti HBc
... On class and subclass determination for confirmation of positivity for anti-HBc in 19 serum samples, which was identified by screening of blood from 1,343 donors by a competitive EIA Hep[r] ...
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Occult Hepatitis B Demonstrated by Anti-HBc and HBV DNA in HIV-Positive Patients
... Because the actual HBV infection rate is not known in Iranian HIV patients, we conducted this study in Jahrom and Fassa, two cities in southern Iran, to determine the actua[r] ...
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Epidemiological analysis of the significance of low positive test results for antibody to hepatitis B surface and core antigens
... These findings indicate that neither low levels of anti-HBs alone nor low levels of anti-HBc alone are due to past HBV exposure and suggest that low levels of these antibodies reflect a [r] ...
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Occult Hepatitis B Virus infection in ART Naive HIV Infected Patients seen at a Tertiary Care Centre in North India
... for anti- HBs, anti-HBc total (IgG+IgM) and HBV-DNA using a highly sensitive qualitative PCR and analysed ...for anti- HBc antibodies; being ...for anti-HBs ...
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Prevalence of hepatitis B virus infection among health care workers in a tertiary hospital in Tanzania
... Prevalence of chronic HBV infection HBsAg+, anti-HBc+, anti-HBs-, HBV immunity achieved by healed HBV infection HBsAg-, anti-HBc+, anti-HBs+ or by vaccination HBsAg-, anti-HBc-, anti-HBs[r] ...
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Synthesis of antibodies to hepatitis B virus by cultured lymphocytes from chronic hepatitis B surface antigen carriers
... controls. Anti-HBc was detectable in lymphocyte supernatants from 2 of 20 controls and from 21 of 29 ...of anti-HBc synthesis in vitro correlated with high serum titers of ...contrast, ...
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Hepatitis B Surface Antigen Should Not Be the Only Sought Marker to Distinguish Blood Donors towards Hepatitis B Virus Infection in High Prevalence Area
... Major subjects (18 years and above) voluntary blood donors were the concern of the study. Negative HBsAg and positive anti-HBc antibodies donors were included to this group. They were all contacted by phone ...
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Hepatitis B virus strains from Rwandan blood donors are genetically similar and form one clade within subgenotype A1
... for anti-HBc or anti-HBs, indicating that these samples were false posi- tive in ...for anti- HBc including one also positive for ...for anti-HBe. The anti-HBc ...
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Immune Response after Hepatitis B Vaccination among Egyptian Medical Students in Nile Delta
... The immune response to HB vaccine is assessed by measuring antibody level after 6 - 8 weeks of completion of 3 vaccine doses. Antibody to hepatitis B surface antigen (anti-HBS) titer higher than 10 IU/l is ...
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Prospects for Control of Hepatitis B Virus Infection: Implications of Childhood Vaccination and Long-term Protection
... Ab- breviations: HBV, hepatitis B virus; anti-HBs, antibody to hepatitis B surface antigen; anti-HBc, antibody to hepatitis B core antigen; HBsAg, hepatitis B surface antigen. TABLE 5.[r] ...
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Prevalence and risk factors of hepatitis B and C virus infections in an impoverished urban community in Dhaka, Bangladesh
... of anti- HBc, in addition to the estimation of the prevalence of HBsAg which is the most reliable biological biomarker of HBV infection, is much more informative about indicator of HBV disease burden among ...
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Hepatitis B virus induced cytoplasmic antineutrophil cytoplasmic antibody mediated vasculitis causing subarachnoid hemorrhage, acute transverse myelitis, and nephropathy: a case report
... urea 21 mmol/l and creatinine 185 μmol/l. Urine routine evaluation showed: white blood cells 1 to 2 cells per high power field, red blood cells 8 to 10 cells per high power field, and albumin 3+ without any casts. Tests ...
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Thrombocytopenia Associated With Acute Hepatitis B Infection
... HBV, hepatitis B virus; ITP, immune throm- bocytopenic purpura; IVIG, intravenous gamma globulin; anti- HAV, anti-hepatitis A virus; HbsAg, hepatitis B surface antigen; anti-HBc, antibod[r] ...
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Cross sectional study of hepatitis B virus infection in rural communities, Central African Republic
... had anti-HBc antibodies, in- dicating that a high proportion of these rural populations had been exposed to ...(anti- HBc IgM antibody ...for anti-HBc but negative for ...
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Uptake of hepatitis B vaccination and its determinants among health care workers in a tertiary health facility in Enugu, South East, Nigeria
... The findings in the current study showed that 10.8% of the participants did not receive hepatitis B vaccination because of cost of vaccination, 47.5% did not know where to take the vaccination, 6.6% believed they could ...
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Nearly half of Ultrio plus NAT non discriminated reactive blood donors were identified as occult HBV infection in South China
... 91.1% anti-HBc positive donations among NDR donors reflected a proportion of ...47.4% anti-HBc posi- tive background off in local blood donors ...considering anti-HBs only OBIs’ ...
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Improvements in detection of antibody to hepatitis B core antigen by treating specimens with reducing agent in an automated microparticle enzyme immunoassay
... The reducing agent, dithiothreitol, was added to each specimen automatically in the TMx assay to eliminate these unspecific reactions without significantly affecting anti-HBc reactivity [r] ...
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Utility of oral fluid samples for hepatitis B antibody detection in real life conditions
... for anti- HBc detection in oral fluid samples demonstrating good performance in ambulatory group compared to other populations/individuals living in different ...to anti-HBc detection as ...
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Construction and Immunological Evaluation of CpG Au@HBc Virus Like Nanoparticles as a Potential Vaccine
... with HBc VLPs, CpG-Au@HBc VLPs, CpG-Au + HBc VLPs, CpG@HBc VLPs, and HBc VLPs mixed with conventional Freund’s adjuvants (CFA/IFA + HBc VLPs), which were widely applied to induce ...
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