Serum hepatitis B surface antigen and hepatitis B e antigen titers: Disease phase influences correlation with viral load and intrahepatic hepatitis B virus markers

Hepatology

Volumn 51, Issue 6, 2010, Pages 1933-1944

  Thompson, Alexander J V ^a,b   Nguyen, Tin ^a,b   Iser, David ^a,b,c   Ayres, Anna ^a   Jackson, Kathy ^a   Littlejohn, Margaret ^a   Slavin, John ^b   Bowden, Scott ^a   Gane, Edward J ^d   Abbott, William ^d   Lau, George K K ^e   Lewin, Sharon R ^c,f,g   Visvanathan, Kumar ^f,h   Desmond, Paul V ^b   Locarnini, Stephen A ^a  

^a VICTORIAN INFECTIOUS DISEASES REFERENCE LABORATORY   (Australia)

^b ST VINCENT S HOSPITAL   (Australia)

^c ALFRED HOSPITAL   (Australia)

^d AUCKLAND CITY HOSPITAL   (New Zealand)

^e UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

^f MONASH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^g BURNET INSTITUTE   (Australia)

^h MONASH MEDICAL CENTRE   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIOLOGICAL MARKER; CIRCULAR DNA; HEPATITIS B SURFACE ANTIGEN; HEPATITIS B(E) ANTIGEN; VIRUS DNA;

ADULT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATIONAL STUDY; ENZYME IMMUNOASSAY; FEMALE; GENOTYPE; HEPATITIS B; HEPATITIS B VIRUS; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; IN VIVO STUDY; INTROSPECTION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEASUREMENT; PATHOGENESIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; SEROCONVERSION; SEROLOGY; VIROLOGY; VIRUS LOAD; VIRUS REPLICATION;

ADULT; BIOLOGICAL MARKERS; FEMALE; HEPATITIS B E ANTIGENS; HEPATITIS B SURFACE ANTIGENS; HEPATITIS B, CHRONIC; HUMANS; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; LIVER; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; VIRAL LOAD; VIRUS REPLICATION;

EID: 77952716572     PISSN: 02709139     EISSN: 15273350     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/hep.23571     Document Type: Article

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