International/Egypt - Hepatitis B Virus
"High Frequency of HBeAg-Minus Chronic HBsAg-Positive Liver Disease in Egypt."
Published in Hepatitis Weekly, May 1st, 1995
According to the authors' abstract of an article published in International Hepatology Communications, "The aim of this study was to establish if a correlation exists between the HBe antigen/anti-HBe-antibody profile (HBeAg/anti-HBe) and the hepatitis B virus DNA (HBV-DNA) among patients in Egypt with chronic liver disease induced by the hepatitis B virus. The results revealed that 44 out of 100 patients with chronic HBsAg-positive liver disease were also HBV-DNA-positive. Of these 44 cases, 5 (11.3%) were HBeAg-positive, 18 (41.0%) anti-HBe-positive and 21 (47.7%) negative for both markers. This finding showed that HBeAg-negative chronic hepatitis B represents more than 80% of chronic...
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Source: Hepatitis Weekly (1995-05-01)
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