Hepatitis B Virus DNA in Sera of Blood Donors and of Patients Infected with Hepatitis C Virus and Human Immunodeficiency Virus | Zendy

Fernando Lopes Gonçales | Zendy; Josiane Silveira Felix Pereira | Zendy; Cláudia Bezerra da Silva | Zendy; Glaucimari Roberto Thomaz | Zendy; Maria Helena Postal Pavan | Zendy; Viviane Cristina Fais | Zendy; Luís Alberto Magna | Zendy; Neiva Sellan Lopes Gonçales | Zendy

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Hepatitis B Virus DNA in Sera of Blood Donors and of Patients Infected with Hepatitis C Virus and Human Immunodeficiency Virus

Author(s) -

Fernando Lopes Gonçales,

Josiane Silveira Felix Pereira,

Cláudia Bezerra da Silva,

Glaucimari Roberto Thomaz,

Maria Helena Postal Pavan,

Viviane Cristina Fais,

Luís Alberto Magna,

Neiva Sellan Lopes Gonçales

Publication year - 2003

Publication title -

clinical and vaccine immunology

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 1.649

H-Index - 77

eISSN - 1556-6811

pISSN - 1556-679X

DOI - 10.1128/cdli.10.4.718-720.2003

Subject(s) - virology , hbsag , hepatitis b virus , hepatitis c virus , virus , medicine , hepatitis b , hepatitis , immunology , biology

With the use of PCR, we searched for hepatitis B virus (HBV) DNA in serum samples from 415 HBsAg-negative, anti-HBc-positive patients: 150 were blood donors, 106 had only hepatitis C virus (HCV) infection, and 159 had human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) infection (of which 88 were HCV positive and 71 were HCV negative). HBV DNA was detected in 4% of blood donors, 3.4% of HIV- and HCV-positive patients, and 24% of HCV-positive patients.

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