Anti-HBs is a neutralizing antibody and its presence suggests the recovery from hepatitis B and confers a long-term ... These patients usually harbor precore/core promoter mutations in the HBV ...

Study: AGA Clinical Practice Guideline on the Prevention and Treatment of Hepatitis B Virus Reactivation in ... HBV surface antigen (HBsAg) or HBV core antibody (anti-HBc). The most common cause ...

led to a hepatitis B vaccine and culminated in the Nobel prize. During this time, I had developed a panel of sera consisting of duplicate coded samples that had been proved to be infectious in the ...