Prevalence of occult hepatitis B virus infection in Egypt: a systematic review with meta-analysis

A Azzam, H Khaled, ES El-Kayal, FA Gad… - Journal of the Egyptian …, 2023 - Springer
Background Occult hepatitis B virus (HBV) infection (OBI) is a major public health problem.
The clinical importance of OBI stems from the fact that it can be transmitted to healthy …

[HTML][HTML] Occult hepatitis B: the Egyptian situation

MH Emara - Tropical Gastroenterology, 2013 - tropicalgastro.com
Occult hepatitis B infection is defined as the presence of HBV DNA in serum and/or the liver
tissue without detectable HBsAg with or without anti-HBc or anti-HBs antibodies. In Egypt …

Association of colonic regulatory T cells with hepatitis C virus pathogenesis and liver pathology

HF Hetta, MA Mekky, NK Khalil… - Journal of …, 2015 - Wiley Online Library
Abstract Background and Aim Forkhead box protein P3 (FoxP3)+ regulatory T (Treg) cells
play a fundamental role in maintaining the balance between the tissue‐damaging and …

Association between IL28B rs12979860 single nucleotide polymorphism and the frequency of colonic Treg in chronically HCV-infected patients

M Mehta, HF Hetta, EA Abdel-Hameed, SD Rouster… - Archives of …, 2016 - Springer
The IL28B gene is associated with spontaneous or treatment-induced HCV viral clearance.
However, the mechanism by which the IL28B single nucleotide polymorphism (SNP) affects …

[PDF][PDF] Serological and molecular diagnosis of occult hepatitis b virus infection in hepatitis c chronic liver diseases

EA Daef, NA Makhlouf, EH Ahmed, AI Mohamed… - Egypt J …, 2017 - researchgate.net
Occult Hepatitis B infection (OBI), defined as the presence of serum HBV DNA without
detectable HBsAg, can be classified into seropositive OBI [anti-HBc and/or anti-hepatitis B …

High prevalence of occult hepatitis B virus infection among frequently blood transfused children: a single Egyptian center experience

NS Mohamed, HM Abdelghani - International Journal of …, 2020 - journals.mums.ac.ir
Background Occult hepatitis B virus (HBV) infection (OBI) is a form of the disease which
does not present with Hepatitis B surface antigens (HBsAg) in the serum of patients with …

[PDF][PDF] Prevalence of occult hbv infection among chronic hepatitis c patients in upper egypt

AG Thabit, MA Hassan, MN Agban… - Egyptian J …, 2017 - researchgate.net
Occult hepatitis B virusinfection (OBI) is defined as the presence of HBV DNA in liver or
serum of individuals who test negative for hepatitis B surface antigen (HBsAg). We aimed at …

Prevalence of occult HBV infection in HCV positive patients in Suez Canal area.

NN El-Maraghy, FA Khalil, O Dessouki, R Hassan - 2015 - cabidigitallibrary.org
Hepatitis B virus (HBV) is a major health problem. The term occult hepatitis B virus infection
(OBI) is defined as the serologically undetectable hepatitis B surface antigen, despite of the …

Prevalence and significance of hepatitis B core antibodies among hepatitis B surface antigen-negative Egyptian polytransfused adult patients

TA Elbedewy, NM Noreldin… - The Egyptian Journal of …, 2015 - journals.lww.com
Results Among the 79 HBsAg-negative sera, anti-HBc was detected in 12 of 79 (15.19%)
cases. All anti-HBc-positive sera were anti-HBs-negative. HBV-DNA was detected in five of …

[PDF][PDF] Report from Tropics

MH Emara - Tropical Gastroenterology, 2012 - researchgate.net
Occult hepatitis B infection is defined as the presence of HBV DNA in serum and/or the liver
tissue without detectable HBsAg with or without anti-HBc or anti-HBs antibodies. In Egypt …