hepatitis B virus e antigen
Hepatitis B Virus Surface Antigen (HBsAg)-Positive and HBsAg-Negative Hepatitis B Virus Infection among Mother-Teenager Pairs 13 Years after Neonatal Hepatitis B Virus Vaccination
... of virus isolates were calculated using the Tamura-Nei ...genotype B, BX97850, AY800391, AY206390, and AY206391; genotype C, AB112063 and AB033557; geno- type D, EU939680 and X65259; genotype E, ...
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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
... International targets arising from the United Nations “sustainable development goals” have set a challenge for the elimination of CHB infection as a public health threat by the year 2030 (33). Recognizing the ...
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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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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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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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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 ...
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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
... Serum virus DNA was extracted using the TIANamp virus DNA/RNA kit (DP315, Tiangen Biotech Co. Ltd, Beijing, China) according to the manufacturer’s instruction. The HBV X gene fragment containing the BCP ...
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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 ...
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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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Distinct patterns of serum hepatitis B core-related antigen during the natural history of chronic hepatitis B
... of hepatitis B virus [16], in which a new no- menclature is used to describe these four phases, ...chronic hepatitis, HBeAg-negative chronic infection and HBeAg-negative chronic ...
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Simultaneous Comparison of Serological and Molecular Results of HBV Test in Patients Referring to the Pathobiology Laboratory
... with Hepatitis B ...occult Hepatitis B virus (HBV) infection (OBI) in which HBsAg and HBV DNA are both negative, but anti-HBc could be ...
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Cost-effectiveness of birth-dose hepatitis B vaccination among refugee populations in the African region: a series of case studies
... This analysis has several limitations. Firstly, our prob- ability point estimates for disease modelling and cost were drawn from existing literature and may not neces- sarily reflect the populations under study. We used ...
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Chronic hepatitis B in Korean Americans: decreased prevalence and poor linkage to care
... with expertise in hepatitis B care. Of note, our campaign also included education seminars and forums for physi- cians who had greatest contacts with the Asian American community. In addition to updating ...
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Prior hepatitis B virus infection as a co-factor of chronic hepatitis C patient survival after resection of hepatocellular carcinoma
... patients with PBI compared with those without PBI. On the other hand, no association between PBI and survival was observed in non-B non-C HCC patients, which strongly suggests that PBI by itself is not a ...
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Seroepidemiology of HBV infection among health care workers in South Sulawesi, Indonesia
... [29]. Hepatitis B immunoglobulin can be of- fered for immediate protection upon significant exposure to HBV, while HBV vaccination can be given to individuals who lack HBsAg and have not been vaccinated or ...
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A review of the infection-associated cancers in North African countries
... Epstein-Barr virus; H. pylori , Helicobac- ter pylori ; HBsAg, Hepatitis B surface antigen; HBV, Hepatitis B Virus; HCC, Hepatocellular carcinoma; HCV, Hepatitis C ...
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Histological Presence of HBsAg in Liver Pathologies in Southeast Mexican Patients
... In the non-steatosis zones (black arrow, cholestasis and steatosis), the AFP presence was lower. The stain degree in this group was very similar to the one in the cirrhosis group, but lipid vacuoles that span a large ...
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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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Seroprevalence of hepatitis B virus surface antigen (HBsAg) among clients visiting ‘Tefera Hailu’ memorial hospital, Sekota, Northern Ethiopia
... Hepatitis B is caused by the hepatitis B virus (HBV), an envelope, double stranded, circular DNA genome and classified within the family ...called hepatitis, origin- ally known ...
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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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