Background Hepatitis B virus (HBV) is a common cause of viral ... to HBsAg testing and also to ascertain likely cause of weakly positive (grayzone) results. Results During the 17 month study ...

Researchers at Oregon Health & Science University have developed the first transgenic nonhuman primate model—genetically ...

It is effective in preventing infection by 80 to 100 percent if given within 24 hours for infants born to hepatitis B ...

Recent guidelines suggest that people with hepatitis B can be classified into those that are HBeAg-positive and those that are HBeAg-negative. Within these two groups, people either have active ...

Savage resident Edwin Tan spent his summer carrying a message across the triathlon finish line. Tan, 29, lives with chronic hepatitis B. He said there isn’t a lot of public ...

A new study published in the journal of Nature Scientific Reports found that anemia was almost three times as common in women ...

Postpone vaccination in persons with moderate or severe acute febrile illness, unless they are at immediate risk of hepatitis B infection (eg, infants born of HBsAg-positive mothers) to avoid ...

However, she tested Hepatitis B positive. “I was so shocked. I remembered chief’s barazas where we had been told about how dangerous the disease is. My mind was fresh of memories of my ...

A dot plot showing COI for the HBsAg test for all 34 patients who received hepatitis B vaccine 14 days or less before HBsAg testing is shown in Figure 3. There was one patient who had a positive ...