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

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Published in Hepatology on June 01, 2010

Authors

Alexander J V Thompson1, Tin Nguyen, David Iser, Anna Ayres, Kathy Jackson, Margaret Littlejohn, John Slavin, Scott Bowden, Edward J Gane, William Abbott, George K K Lau, Sharon R Lewin, Kumar Visvanathan, Paul V Desmond, Stephen A Locarnini

Author Affiliations

1: Department of Research and Molecular Development, Victorian Infectious Diseases Reference Laboratory, North Melbourne, Victoria, Australia.

Associated clinical trials:

Combination Treatment of NAs and Peg IFN α-2b for Hepatitis B Related, Compensatory Cirrhosis Patients | NCT03969017

The Clinical Cure Project of Chronic Hepatitis B in China | NCT04035837

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