Hepatitis B Virus: Inactive carriers
Inactive carriers forms the largest group in chronic HBV infected patients. Around 300 million people are inactive carriers The inactive HBsAg carrier state is diagnosed by absence of HBeAg and presence of anti-HBe, undetectable or low levels of HBV DNA in PCR-based assays, repeatedly normal ALT lev...
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BioMed Central
2005
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Online Access: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1253537/ |