Eijaz Ghani, Karamat Ahmed Karamat.
Categorization of HBV Carriers.
J Coll Physicians Surg Pak Jan ;10(1):27-8.

Hepatitis B virus (HBV) carrier state can broadly be classified into ordinary and super categories on the basis of Hepatitis B `e` Antigen (HBeAg) and antibody to Hepatitis B `e` antigen (anti HBe). A total of 523 cases of HBV infection were included in this retrospective study for the purpose of subcategorization. Out of 433, males 73.44% were ordinary carriers (HBeAg Non-reactive but having antibody to that antigen), 18.01% super carriers (converse serological state) and 8.41 % doubly negative carriers. In 90 females tested, 65.55% were ordinary carriers, 26.66% were super carriers and 7.77% were doubly negative. This pattern may help clinicians in prophylaxis to their contacts and for prognostic considerations.

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