Journal of Medical Virology 37:28&293 (1992)

Hepatitis B Surface Antigen Particles of Subtypes adw and adr, and Compound Subtype (adwr)in Symptom-Free Carriers in Japan Hiroshi Kanagawa, Emiko Takai, Fumio Tsuda, Atsuhiko Machida, Mineo Kojima, Ayako Ishijima, Takeshi Tanaka, Hiroaki Okamoto, Yuzo Miyakawa, and Makoto Mayumi Hokkaido Kinikyo Chuou Hospital, Hokkaido (H.K.); Kojima Internal Clinic, Gifu-Ken (M.K.); Japanese Red Cross Blood Centre, Saitama-Ken (A.I, T.T); Immunology Division, Jichi Medical School, Tochigi-Ken (H.O., M.M.); Section of Immunology, Kitasato Institute, (E.T., F.T., A.M.) and Mita Institute, (Y.M.), Tokyo, Japan Of sera from 1,878Japanese blood donors w h o carried hepatitis B surface antigen (HBsAg), 420 were subtyped as a d w (22.4%)and 1,443as adr (76.8%);only 15 (0.8%)contained HBsAg of subtype a y w or ayr. Sera with HBsAgiadr had higher HBsAg titres than those with HBsAgiadw (geometric mean of haemagglutination titre: 10.1 2.4 vs. 9.7 k 2.4,p

Hepatitis B surface antigen particles of subtypes adw and adr, and compound subtype (adwr) in symptom-free carriers in Japan.

Of sera from 1,878 Japanese blood donors who carried hepatitis B surface antigen (HBsAg), 420 were subtyped as adw (22.4%) and 1,443 as adr (76.8%); o...
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