Response to hepatitis B virus (HBV) infection [HBV surface antigen (HBsAg) and antibody to HBsAg (anti-HBs)], serum iron, total iron-binding capacity, hematological status (erythrocytes, Hb, and hematocrit), and evidence of liver damage (serum glutamic pyruvic transaminase; aspartate aminotransferase, L-aspartate:2-oxoglutarate aminotransferase, EC 2.6.1.1) were determined for 201 patients on c...

BACKGROUND In 2002, the US Department of Defense (DoD) mandated hepatitis B immunization for military recruits. A DoD study reported that screening for immunity with selective immunization would be cost-effective at a prevalence of immunity of >12%. The prevalence of hepatitis B immunity in the military recruit population was unknown. METHODS We studied a random sample of Army, Navy, and Mari...

INTRODUCTION There are controversies over the long-term persistence of post vaccination immunity to hepatitis B and the need for booster doses of the vaccine. The aim of this study was to verify antibody levels of antibody against hepatitis B virus surface antigen (anti-HBs) in children aged 1 to 15 years who received vaccination against hepatitis B in the central province of Iran, Semnan. MA...

Growing attention to an old marker, hepatitis B surface antigen, in the natural history of chronic hepatitis B Serum hepatitis B surface antigen and hepatitis B e antigen titers: disease phase influences correlation with viral load and intrahepatic hepatitis B virus markers. Hepatitis B surface antigen (HBsAg), originally referred as to " Australia antigen " was discovered approximately 40 year...

Several recent reports have shown that hepatitis B virus (HBV) could be frequently transmitted to the recipients from donors who have antibodies to hepatitis B core antigen (anti-HBc) through liver transplantation. We provide here the molecular evidence of latent HBV infection accompanied with ongoing viral replication in the liver tissue of anti-HBc-positive healthy individuals. HBV DNA was de...

Acute hepatitis B virus (HBV) infection is typically distinguished from chronic disease by a positive IgM anti-hepatitis B core antigen (anti-HBc) test. Patients with chronic hepatitis B remain hepatitis B surface antigen (HBsAg) positive, often with raised serum alanine aminotransferase (ALT) activities, for more than six months. The presence of hepatitis B e antigen (HBeAg) and HBV-DNA correl...

Rationale: Ectopic hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) is a rare disease that mostly originates from an ectopic liver. Patient concerns: The patient was admitted with upper abdominal distention for 3 months, which aggravated after meal. Diagnoses: A contrast-enhanced computed tomography (CT) scan revealed multiple abdominal masses. After exploratory laparotomy and histological examination, the patie...

UNLABELLED BACKGROUND AND RATIONALE FOR THE STUDY: Hepatitis B (HB) is one of the most prevalent occupational infections in health attendance environments. According to the Brazil Ministry of Health, health professionals must be vaccinated against the hepatitis B virus (HBV) and provide laboratory proof of immunization. AIMS To evaluate the seroprevalence of HBV infection and to analyze the r...

Both cryptogenic liver cirrhosis and idiopathic portal hypertension without pathological findings of liver cirrhosis (IPH) are relatively common in Japan. To find differrence between IPH and cryptogenic liver cirrhosis of Japanese, we investigated human leukocyte antigen (HLA), familial clustering of liver diseases as well as prevalence of HBs antigen in 31 patients with IPH. The age of patient...