Most people assume that once hepatitis B surface antigen disappears from the blood, the hepatitis B virus has been cleared from the body. A comprehensive review published in Nature Reviews Gastroenterology & Hepatology makes clear how misleading that assumption can be. Occult hepatitis B virus infection, or OBI, is defined as the persistence of replication-competent […]
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