Hepatitis B core antigen in hepatocytes of patients with chronic active hepatitis
- 1 August 1980
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Springer Nature in Digestive Diseases and Sciences
- Vol. 25 (8) , 593-596
- https://doi.org/10.1007/bf01318872
Abstract
Hepatitis B core antigen was demonstrated in the hepatocytes of 28 of 40 patients with chronic active hepatitis in whose sera hepatitis B surface antigen was not detectable by radioimmunoassay. This finding suggests that in these patients, despite hepatitis B surface antigen being undetectable in serum, the liver disease is the consequence of chronic infection with hepatitis B virus.Keywords
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