%0 Journal Article
%T Prevalence of Hepatitis B Virus (HBV) Among Blood Donors in Eastern Saudi Arabia: Results From a Five-Year Retrospective Study of HBV Seromarkers
%A Amer Ibrahim Alomar
%A Faisal Mousa Alzahrani
%A Muzaheed
%A Nasreldin Elhadi
%A Sadananda Acharya
%A Saeed Sattar Shaikh
%J Archive of "Annals of Laboratory Medicine".
%D 2019
%R 10.3343/alm.2019.39.1.81
%X Transfusion-transmissible hepatitis B virus (HBV) infection is a major problem worldwide. Recently, confirmatory nucleic acid tests (NATs) for HBV DNA have been employed in several countries. We assessed the prevalence and yearly trends of HBV infection in blood donors in the Eastern Province of Saudi Arabia, screening for HBV surface antigen (HBsAg), antibody against HBV core antigen (anti-HBc), and HBV DNA
%K Hepatitis B virus
%K Hepatitis B virus surface antigen
%K Antibody against hepatitis B virus core antigen
%K Nucleic acid test
%K Prevalence
%K Blood donors
%K Saudi Arabia
%U https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6143475/