Hepatitis B Virus
Hepatitis B virus DNA in blood donors is a possible indicator of active infection
Published in Hepatitis Weekly, December 19th, 2005
"HBV may be present in serum even when negative for HBV surface antigen (HBsAg). If routine screening of sera for anti-HBV core antigen (anti-HBc) is not done, low-level HBV viraemia may not be identified."
"A study was done on the presence of HBV DNA in serum samples from Mexican blood donors negative for HBsAg," wrote B.M. Garcia-Montalvo and colleagues, Instituto Mexicano del Seguro Social.
"Sera from 158 volunteer blood donors, negative for HBsAg and anti-HBs, but positive for anti-HBc, were...
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Source: Hepatitis Weekly (2005-12-19)
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