Updated Seroprevalence of Hepatitis B Surface Antigen and Anti-Hepatitis Core Antibody Among Blood Donors in Yemen.
Tawfique K A AlzubieryTalal H AlharaziJerold C AlcantaraSaleh A MajedAbdulrahman S BazaidAbdu AldarhamiPublished in: Infection and drug resistance (2022)
The seroprevalence of HBsAg and anti-HBcAb among the blood donors was 2.0% and 10.3%, respectively. The ECL technique is more sensitive, has a lower error rate, and shows an advantage over the manual EIA technique. Duplicated blood donors influence the accuracy of the seroprevalence of HBsAg and anti-HBcAb.
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