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certain toxins, some medications, some medical conditions, and frequently, a viral infection. Hepatitis B testing looks for the presence of an infection with the hepatitis B virus (HBV). Over 800,000 people live with hepatitis B, and a majority are not even aware that they are infected. Hep...
most countries and labs are now using state-of-the-art FDA-cleared or CE-marked assays. These current anti-HBc tests (e.g, the Architect II system) are more than 99.8% specific for blood donors and thus indicative of residual disease (cccDNA) and a clear lack of need for ...
The rapid strip test is widely used at POC worldwide, but it is qualitative and has limited accuracy. A quantitative hepatitis B serologic test has the advantage of providing valuable clinical information for long-term monitoring of chronic hepatitis B infection. In this study, we performed a pr...
A retrospective clinical audit conducted over 2 months. Index cases were CHB-positive patients identified in the practice’s Chronic Disease Management (CDM) Care Plan database. Contacts were individuals listed as household contacts on a ‘contact tracing chart’ by each index case. Interviews were...