Occult hepatitis B infection
Prevalence of Occult Hepatitis B Infection among HBsAg Negative Blood Donors in Golestan Province
... HBV infection is likely to be transferred through HBsAg-negative blood products in the critical stage of the infection throughout either the seronegative window period or chronic phases with unnoticeable ...
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Occult hepatitis B infection in egyptian chronic hepatitis C patients: prevalence, impact on pegylated interferon/ribavirin therapy
... HCV infection combined with occult hepatitis B infection has been associated with liver enzymes flare, advanced hepatic fibrosis and cirrhosis, poor response to standard interferon-a, ...
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Occult Hepatitis B Infection and Its Role in Blood Safety: a Review
... HBV infection, with 2-7% being chronic ...of infection is lower than general population. The occult hepatitis B infection is the main concern in blood safety due to transmission ...
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Genetic polymorphisms of HLA DP and isolated anti HBc are important subsets of occult hepatitis B infection in Indonesian blood donors: a case control study
... HBV infection [11, ...HBV infection such as susceptibility, persistent infection, and disease progression [6]; however, to date, the effect of HLA-DP variants on OBI detection has not been ...
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Occult hepatitis B infection: an evolutionary scenario
... provided online as Additional File 1. The corresponding output of the ALASCAN server shows that the central part of core protein (amino acid residues 67–96), the N-termi- nal half of the a-determinant region (96–122) and ...
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Occult Hepatitis B and NAFLD as Etiological Factors for Non B Non C Hepatocellular Carcinoma
... HEPB infection with undetectable levels of ...HEPB infection (157). Occult hepatitis B infection may sometimes turn out as ‘‘false” cases if plasma HEPB DNA levels are akin to ...
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Characterization of occult hepatitis B virus infection among HIV positive patients in Cameroon
... termed occult hepatitis B infection (OBI), characterized by the presence of HBV DNA in the blood and liver in HBsAg-negative individuals, who may or may not have anti-HBc and anti-HBs ...
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Anti hepatitis B core antigen testing with detection and characterization of occult hepatitis B virus by an in house nucleic acid testing among blood donors in Behrampur, Ganjam, Orissa in southeastern India: implications for transfusion
... There is increasing evidence that OBI is associated with chronic liver disease and HCC [31,32], in addition to being a source of transmission of HBV by blood transfu- sion or orthotropic liver transplantation [33]. ...
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Characterization of occult hepatitis B virus infection among HIV positive patients in Cameroon
... termed occult hepatitis B infection (OBI), characterized by the presence of HBV DNA in the blood and liver in HBsAg-negative individuals, who may or may not have anti-HBc and anti-HBs ...
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The prevalence of occult hepatitis B virus (hbv) infection in a large multi-ethnic haemodialysis cohort
... HBV infection varies from country to country, and as such one would expect that occult HBV would similarly vary with geographic ...of occult HBV in haemodialysis cohorts appear to be ...these ...
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Occult Hepatitis B Virus Infection among Blood Donors; North Middle Libya
... transfusion hepatitis B (PTHB) continues to be an important public health concern in regard to blood transfusion in ...the hepatitis B surface antigen (HBsAg) began as part of the mandatory ...
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Identification and characterization of interferon signaling-related microRNAs in occult hepatitis B virus infection
... Background: Occult hepatitis B virus infection (OBI) is an important risk factor of liver cirrhosis and hepatocellular ...with hepatitis B virus (HBV) ...
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Specific Amino Acid Substitutions in the S Protein Prevent Its Excretion In Vitro and May Contribute to Occult Hepatitis B Virus Infection
... FIG 2 Detection of intracellular and extracellular levels of HBsAg/S protein by EIA and IFA after transfection of cloned S sequences in HuH-7 cells. (A) Average individual HBsAg production in HuH-7 cells transfected with ...
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Occult hepatitis B virus infection: influence of S protein variants
... HBV infection, whereas 2 families had 2 OBI ...HBV infection and a patient with OBI could be ei- ther parent/child or sibling ...and hepatitis C virus (HCV) infections, adiposis hepatica, ...
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Occult Hepatitis B Virus infection in ART Naive HIV Infected Patients seen at a Tertiary Care Centre in North India
... the occult infection of HBV which is supported by the data that occult HBV infection was frequent in those who were positive for anti-HBc antibodies and also those who had significant levels ...
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Cellular Immune Responses Associated with Occult Hepatitis C Virus Infection of the Liver
... for background responses), with 10 g/ml of HCV NS3 and NS4 proteins (Mik- rogen), with 10 g/ml NS3(1248–1260) peptide, with 10 g/ml of human cyto- megalovirus (CMV) antigen lysate (Biodesign, Saco, ME), or with 10 ...
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Occult Hepatitis C Virus Infection in Spanish Patients with Lymphoproliferative Disorders
... with B-cell non-Hodgkin lymphoma (B-NHL), 1 with Hodgkin lymphoma (HL) and 1 with T-cell non-Hodgkin lymphoma ...CD19+ B cells positively isolated form PBMCs as well as CD19- fraction, mainly ...
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<p>Prevalence and predictors of occult hepatitis C virus infection among Egyptian patients who achieved sustained virologic response to sofosbuvir/daclatasvir therapy: a multi-center study</p>
... Child B score, antiviral experienced patients, and raised bilirubin are the most significant predictor for the possibility of OCI presence with Odds Ratio as ...
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Occult Hepatitis B Virus Infection in Chronic Hemodialysis Patients in Panje-Azar Hospital, Gorgan
... ﻦﯾا ﺞﯾﺎﺘﻧ ﺎﺑ ﺎﻣ ﻪﻌﻟﺎﻄﻣ ﺖﺤﺗ داﺮﻓا نﻮﯿﺳﺎﻨﯿﺴﮐاو ﺶﺷﻮﭘ رد توﺎﻔﺗ. دراد ﯽﻧاﻮﺨﻤﻫ ﻪﻌﻟﺎﻄﻣ[r] ...
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Occult hepatitis B virus infection in Egyptian hemodialysis patients with or without hepatitis C virus infection
... of occult HBV in adult end-stage renal disease patients on maintenance hemodialysis is ...or hepatitis B core antibody positivity should be screened for probable occult HBV ...any ...
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