Hepatitis B e antigen
Original Article Association of hepatitis B virus basal core promoter T1762/A1764 and precore A1896 mutations with serum hepatitis B virus DNA load, hepatitis B e antigen status, serum α-fetoprotein and hepatitis B virus-related liver disease progression
... of Hepatitis B virus (HBV) and their association with clinical parameters in patients with chronic hepatitis B (CHB), cirrhosis and hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) were ...237 hepatitis ...
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Seroprevalence of hepatitis B e antigen (HBe antigen) and B core antibodies (IgG anti HBcore and IgM anti HBcore) among hepatitis B surface antigen positive blood donors at a Tertiary Centre in Nigeria
... to hepatitis B core antigen is the first to develop, following acute hepatitis B infection, which appears predominantly as IgM anti-HBc at about 6 weeks after ...acute hepatitis ...
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Acute exacerbations of chronic type B hepatitis are accompanied by increased T cell responses to hepatitis B core and e antigens Implications for hepatitis B e antigen seroconversion
... hepatitis B surface antigen (HBsAg) carriers. The results showed that HBeAg-positive patients had (a) higher levels of T cell responses to HBcAg/HBeAg than those of healthy HBsAg carriers (P less ...
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Original Article Clinical prognosis of chronic hepatitis B patients with concurrent HBeAg/Anti-HBe detection and possible mechanism
... chronic hepatitis B (CHB), the loss of hepatitis B e antigen (HBeAg) and the production of antibody to HBeAg (Anti- HBe) (HBeAg seroconversion) is generally asso- ciated with ...
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Serum HBV RNA quantification: useful for monitoring natural history of chronic hepatitis B infection
... and hepatitis B surface antigen (HBsAg) levels have been confirmed to be positively cor- related with intrahepatic cccDNA transcription activity in chronic HBV-infected individuals, especially those ...
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Outcomes of the national programme on prevention of mother-to-child transmission of hepatitis B virus in China, 2016–2017
... Hepatitis B is a global public health concern with 257 million people living with hepatitis B virus (HBV) infec- tion (hepatitis B surface-antigen [HBsAg] positive) ...
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Prevalence of Hepatitis B and Its Associated Factors Among Pregnant Women in Mogadishu, Somalia
... Background: Hepatitis B is a major global health problem caused by viral infection that attacks the liver and can cause both acute and chronic ...both hepatitis B surface antigen ...
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Comparison of the long-term efficacy between entecavir and tenofovir in treatment- naïve chronic hepatitis B patients
... ALT: Alanine aminotransferase; anti-HBe: Antibody to hepatitis B e antigen; anti-HBs: Antibody to hepatitis B surface antigen; CHB: Chronic hepatitis B; ETV: Entecavir; HBeAg: Hepatitis [r] ...
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Detection of pre C and core region mutants of hepatitis B virus in chronic hepatitis B virus carriers
... of hepatitis B virus (HBV) DNA by a polymerase chain reaction in 22 chronic ...9 hepatitis B e antigen-positive asymptomatic carriers, a single DNA band was detected at the ...
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A large-scale analysis study on the clinical and viral characteristics of hepatitis B infection with concurrence of hepatitis B surface or E antigens and their corresponding antibodies.
... Hepatitis B surface E antigen (HBeAg) is an antigen that can be found between the nucleocapsid core and the lipid envelope. Its correlation with HBV replication is commonly used as a ...
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Electronic Health Informatics Data To Describe Clearance Dynamics of Hepatitis B Surface Antigen (HBsAg) and e Antigen (HBeAg) in Chronic Hepatitis B Virus Infection
... Data collection. Our cohort was initially defined by an electronic search of the microbiology laboratory information management systems (LIMS) to identify individuals with a positive HBsAg test. Individual subjects were ...
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Hepatitis B virus with mutations in the core promoter for an e antigen-negative phenotype in carriers with antibody to e antigen.
... Some HBV DNA clones from two asymptomatic carriers carriers 2 and 10 in Table 1 and two patients with chronic hepatitis B patients 4 and 14 in Table 2, all of whom were positive for anti[r] ...
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Safety and efficacy of entecavir for the treatment of chronic hepatitis B
... rately in e-antigen-positive patients and e-antigen-negative patients. For both subgroups, endpoints include virologic suppression (drop in HBV DNA), biochemical response (normalization of ...
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Distinct patterns of serum hepatitis B core-related antigen during the natural history of chronic hepatitis B
... The hepatitis B virus exploits its limited genome for transcription of various messenger RNAs and pregnomic RNA. In addition, it utilizes alternative translation initi- ation to express various polypeptide ...
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Prevention of mother to child transmission of hepatitis B virus: a phase III, placebo controlled, double blind, randomized clinical trial to assess the efficacy and safety of a short course of tenofovir disoproxil fumarate in women with hepatitis B virus e antigen
... Chronic hepatitis B virus (HBV) infection is complicated by cirrhosis and liver ...high hepatitis B viral load, even if infants receive passive-active prophylaxis with HBV immunoglobulin ...
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Strategies for the prevention of perinatal hepatitis B transmission in a marginalized population on the Thailand Myanmar border: a cost effectiveness analysis
... with hepatitis B virus (HBV) worldwide [1, ...of hepatitis B, including liver cirrhosis and hepatocellular carcinoma, which cause approximately 90% of deaths ...HBV e-antigen ...
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Safety of biologic and nonbiologic disease modifying antirheumatic drug therapy in veterans with rheumatoid arthritis and hepatitis B virus infection: a retrospective cohort study
... Furthermore, we required laboratory evidence of prior HBV infection, defined as a positive result for any of the following serologic markers prior to the start of follow- up: HBV surface antigen (HBsAg), HBV core ...
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Antigenic determinants and functional domains in core antigen and e antigen from hepatitis B virus.
... 63, 1989 ANTIGENIC DETERMINANTS IN CORE AND e ANTIGENS FROM HBV this purpose, we have constructed plasmids able to express in Escherichia coli segments of the HBc gene and have used thes[r] ...
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Osteopontin promotes dendritic cell maturation and function in response to HBV antigens
... Results: We found that OPN production of DCs from CHB patients was significantly lower than those from healthy volunteers. The absence of OPN impaired IL-12 production and costimula- tory molecular expression of DCs upon ...
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Association of hepatitis status with surgical outcomes in patients with dual hepatitis B and C related hepatocellular carcinoma
... There are some limitations to our study. First, this retrospective study only enrolled 39 coinfected patients from 2001 to 2011. And the quantitative determination of HBV-DNA and HCV-Ab was adopted to replace pre- vious ...
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