HBV is a major health issue in low-income and middle-income countries where prevalence of hepatitis B surface antigen (HBsAg) positivity is high (≥8%) Measurement of HBsAg and alanine ...

A study published in The Journal of Molecular Diagnostics describes a new HBV assay that offers advantages over currently used methods because it has the capability to detect closed circular DNA ...

The impact of PTX on HBV replication was assessed through various methods including enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay, dual-luciferase reporter assay, quantitative real-time PCR, chromatin ...

The assay generally requires more than 200 U/mL HBV DNA. The specimens were fairly evenly divided among genotype A (34%, 828 samples), genotype B (29.5%, 713 samples), genotype C (23%, 558 samples ...

one mAb named HBC34 demonstrated potent neutralization activity against HBV and HDV. The latter is a satellite virus that hijacks HBV surface proteins to infect human hepatocytes. The activity has ...

New Delhi: QIAGEN announced that its NeuMoDx human immunodeficiency virus type 1 (HIV-1), hepatitis B virus (HBV) and hepatitis C virus (HCV) quantitative assays for blood-borne virus (BBV ...