Hepatitis B surface antigen escape mutant in a first time blood donor potentially missed by a routine screening assay.

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Mutant forms of hepatitis B surface antigen have developed from a matter of academic interest into a real threat due to the fact that they may remain undetected by certain commercial immunoassays. The risk is especially high when hepatitis B surface antigen is the only strategy to detect an asymptomatic HBV carrier in blood donor screening. Surface antigen escape mutants arise in individuals under medically or...

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