Re: Weird hepatitis B test results

Robert1 wrote:
On Aug 18, 7:57 am, David Rind <dr...@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

This is a completely typical set of hep B lab results, with nothing odd
at all. This is a common picture in someone who recovered from hepatitis
B many years ago. It is unlikely that the hep B core ag result was a
false positive.

--
David Rind



You mean the antibody to HBcore (anti-HBc) and the odds are that
indeed this is a post exposure case as when alternative testing
including re-inoculation has showed a much smaller number of theses
cases to be false positive anti-HBc.

Sorry, I'm not understanding this paragraph. Are you asking a question?

People who cleared hep B a long time ago frequently lose the surface antibody and thus show core antibody as their only remaining marker. If you given them hep B vaccine, you can bring back surface antibody.

This is incredibly common in people infected with HIV (it may be the most common hep B serologic pattern in HIV), but happens frequently in people without HIV as well.

--
David Rind
drind@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
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