Transmission (HBV)

Bone Marrow Recipients Acquire Hepatitis B from Surface-Antigen-Positive Donors

Published in Blood Weekly, September 21st, 2000

Patients who receive bone marrow transplants from patients who are hepatitis B virus surface antigen (HBsAg) positive may suffer a variety of complications, especially if they are not HBsAg positive prior to the transplant.

These findings were reported in the journal Blood by medical researchers at the University of Hong Kong in the People's Republic of China.

G.K. Lau and other members of a research group in the Division of Hematology and Oncology studied 18 patients who received HBsAg positive bone marrow and 18 patients who received HbsAg negative bone marrow (groups 1 and 2, respectively).

Lau et al. said, "The...

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