Control of occult hepatitis B virus infection.
Marta Lalana GarcésOihana Ortiz PastorGemma Solé EnrechArmando Raúl Guerra RuizGregori Casals MercadalAlejandro Almería LafuenteMaría Antonieta Ballesteros VizosoPablo Gabriel MedinaSergio Salgüero FernándezAngielys Zamora TrilloIsabel Aured de la SernaJuan Carlos HurtadoSofía Pérez-Del-PulgarXavier FornsManuel Morales RuizPublished in: Advances in laboratory medicine (2022)
A high number of patients with OBI may remain undiagnosed; therefore, screening for OBI in patients with factor risks is essential. For a correct diagnosis of OBI, it is necessary that new markers such as ultrasensitive HBsAg are incorporated, and a more comprehensive marker study is performed by including markers such as cccDNA.