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. 2015 Jan 14;8(3):e14571.
doi: 10.5812/jjm.14571. eCollection 2015 Mar.

Hepatitis B virus Genotyping Among Patients With Cirrhosis

Nastaran Ansari  1 , Manochehr Makvandi  2 , Ali Reza Samarbaf-Zadeh  2
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Hepatitis B virus Genotyping Among Patients With Cirrhosis

Nastaran Ansari et al. Jundishapur J Microbiol. .

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Abstract

Background: Hepatitis B virus (HBV) infection is a worldwide public health problem. Nine HBV genotypes (A-I) have been already discovered. HBV genotypes are important both in the clinical manifestation of disease and treatment response. Moreover, HBV DNA without HBs (Hepatitis B surface)-antigenemia was detected in some patients with chronic hepatitis (occult hepatitis). There is little information about HBV genotypes and its relation to occult infection despite the importance of this infection in Khuzestan Province.

Objectives: This study aimed to determine both occult hepatitis B infection and HBV genotypes among cirrhotic patients.

Patients and methods: Thirty-eight patients with liver cirrhosis, including 11 (28.9%) HBsAg-positive patients and 27 (71.1%) patients with cryptogenic cirrhosis participated in this study. The mean age of the patients at the time of cirrhosis diagnosis was 54.85 years (range 26-75 years). All patients were anti-HCV and anti-HIV negative. For all the samples, the serological Enzyme-Linked Immunosorbent Assay (ELISA) was performed for HBV markers including HBsAg, HBcAb, HBeAg, HBeAb tests. The common primer of S region of HBV was used for Nested PCR. The PCR products of the positive individuals were sequenced for genotyping and subtyping of HBV.

Results: Eleven (40.7%) out of 27 HBV cryptogenic cirrhosis and all 11 HBsAg-positive patients were positive for HBV DNA. The seroprevalences of Hepatitis B virus HBe antigen, anti-HBe and anti-HBc antibodies among the cryptogenic cirrhosis patients were 5 (18.5%), 1 (3.7%), and 5 (20.83), and among HBsAg-positive patients were 6 (54.5%), 5 (45.5%), and 7 (63.6%), respectively.

Conclusions: In our study, only HBV genotype D was found among all the positive HBsAg and occult HBV infection. Moreover, high prevalence (40.7%) of occult HBV infection was determined among patients suffered from cryptogenic cirrhosis.

Keywords: Cirrhosis; Genotyping Techniques; Hepatitis B virus; Occult.

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Figure 1.
Figure 1.. Phylogenetic Trees Based on Comparison of the S Region of Genome.
Iranian sequences determined in this study are indicated by (♦) sign.
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