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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Main Authors: Sharma, Sanjeev Kumar, Saini, Nitin, Chwla, Yogesh
Format: Online
Language:English
Published: BioMed Central 2005
Online Access:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1253537/