Background Hepatitis B virus (HBV) is a common cause of viral hepatitis with significant health complications including cirrhosis and hepatocellular carcinoma. Assays for hepatitis B surface ...

For this reason, antibody levels are regularly tested during dialysis with a blood test called the hepatitis B surface antibody (HBsAb). If HBsAb levels are ever found to be low, a hep B booster ...

This large-scale exploratory study demonstrated that the prevalence of HDV antibody positivity was ... patients were hepatitis B e antigen-positive. The mean (standard deviation) HBsAg level ...

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 ...