Transplantation (HBV)

HBV Transmission Possible from Organs Appearing to Have Past Infection

Published in Hepatitis Weekly, May 18th, 1998

A Japanese study suggests that hepatitis B virus transmission is possible from organ transplant donors who exhibit serological markers of past infection only.

Researcher Hiroshi Yotsuyanagi and colleagues from the University of Tokyo found that the replication of hepatitis B virus (HBV) may persist in some organs, most likely in the liver or peripheral blood cells, for a long time after recovery from acute hepatitis B.

The duration of viremia in acute hepatitis B has been considered to cease with the clearance of the hepatitis B surface antigen (HBsAg) from serum. However, it has been shown that viremia in chronic hepatitis B persists after the...

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