The Development of HBsAg-Positive Hepatitis Despite the Previous Existence of Antibody to HBsAg
- 1 December 1976
- journal article
- research article
- Published by The American Association of Immunologists in The Journal of Immunology
- Vol. 117 (6), 2260-2262
- https://doi.org/10.4049/jimmunol.117.6.2260
Abstract
A dentist developed acute, icteric HBsAg-positive hepatitis despite the prior existence of anti-HBs. Evaluation of this antibody showed it to have a restricted specificity reacting with only one subdeterminant (α1) of the hepatitis B surface antigen. The anti-HBs/α1 coexisted with HBsAg of subtype ayw in the acute phase hepatitis serum.This publication has 2 references indexed in Scilit:
- Concurrently Circulating Hepatitis B Surface Antigen and Heterotypic Anti-HBs AntibodyThe Journal of Immunology, 1976
- Co-Occurrence of Hepatitis B Surface Antigen of a Particular Subtype and Antibody to a Heterologous Subtypic Specificity in the Same SerumThe Journal of Immunology, 1976