Assays for hepatitis B surface antigen (HBsAg) are the most frequently used tests to detect HBV infection. Vaccination for HBV can produce transiently detectable levels of HBsAg in patients.

Large-scale data on the hepatitis D virus (HDV)/hepatitis B virus (HBV) co-infection rate is needed to estimate the current ...

Health care workers are at higher risk of hepatitis B infection due to occupational exposure to blood and body fluids. They ...

Medically reviewed by Patricia Mikula, PharmD The majority of children and adults who receive the hepatitis B (hep B) virus ...

Health care workers are at higher risk of hepatitis B infection due to occupational exposure to blood and body fluids. They ...

While acute hepatitis B infection is often resolved by the immune system, CHB occurs when the body's defences are unable to ...

Health care workers are at higher risk of hepatitis B infection due to occupational exposure to blood and body ...

Methods: We determined antibody to hepatitis B surface antigen (anti-HBs) at 4-13 years of age in 363 low risk children who had been vaccinated starting at birth with hepatitis B vaccine.

If tests show you have two types of antibodies against hepatitis B core and surface antigens (called anti-HBc and anti-HBs), but no surface antigen (HBsAg) after six months of infection, this means ...

All students must have a series of three Hepatitis B vaccinations (0, 1, and 6 months), and a post-vaccine surface antibody titer (to demonstrate immunity). The earliest the antibody titer can be ...

Hepatitis B surface antigen vaccine (recombinant ... Recombivax HB has been shown to elicit antibodies to hepatitis B virus as measured by ELISA. Antibody concentrations ≥10mIU/mL against ...