What can be revealed by extending the sensitivity of HBsAg detection to below the present limit?

Togashi, Hitoshi; Hashimoto, Chika; Yokozawa, Junji; Suzuki, Akihiko; Sugahara, Kazuhiko; Saito, Takafumi; Yamaguchi, Ichiro; Badawi, Hala; Kainuma, Norikazu; Aoyama, Masaaki; Ohya, Hiroaki; Akatsuka, Takao; Tanaka, Yasuhito; Mizokami, Masashi; Kawata, Sumio

doi:10.1016/j.jhep.2008.03.019

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What can be revealed by extending the sensitivity of HBsAg detection to below the present limit?☆

Hitoshi Togashi
- Department of Gastroenterology, Course of Internal Medicine and Therapeutics, Yamagata University Faculty of Medicine, Yamagata University Health Administration Center, 1-4-12 Kojirakawa-machi, Yamagata 990-8560, Japan
- Corresponding author. Tel.: +81 23 628 4151; fax: +81 23 628 4157.
Chika Hashimoto
- Department of Gastroenterology, Course of Internal Medicine and Therapeutics, Yamagata University Faculty of Medicine, Yamagata University Health Administration Center, 1-4-12 Kojirakawa-machi, Yamagata 990-8560, Japan
Junji Yokozawa
- Department of Gastroenterology, Course of Internal Medicine and Therapeutics, Yamagata University Faculty of Medicine, Yamagata University Health Administration Center, 1-4-12 Kojirakawa-machi, Yamagata 990-8560, Japan
Akihiko Suzuki
- Department of Gastroenterology, Course of Internal Medicine and Therapeutics, Yamagata University Faculty of Medicine, Yamagata University Health Administration Center, 1-4-12 Kojirakawa-machi, Yamagata 990-8560, Japan
Kazuhiko Sugahara
- Department of Gastroenterology, Course of Internal Medicine and Therapeutics, Yamagata University Faculty of Medicine, Yamagata University Health Administration Center, 1-4-12 Kojirakawa-machi, Yamagata 990-8560, Japan
Takafumi Saito
- Department of Gastroenterology, Course of Internal Medicine and Therapeutics, Yamagata University Faculty of Medicine, Yamagata University Health Administration Center, 1-4-12 Kojirakawa-machi, Yamagata 990-8560, Japan
Ichiro Yamaguchi
- Murayama Public Health Center, Yamagata Prefecture, Japan
Hala Badawi
- Medical Microbiology, Theodor Bilharz Research Institute, Giza, Egypt
Norikazu Kainuma
- Tohoku Seiki Industries, Ltd., Yamagata, Japan
Masaaki Aoyama
- Institute for Life Support Technology, Yamagata Public Corporation for Development of Industry, Yamagata, Japan
Hiroaki Ohya
- Institute for Life Support Technology, Yamagata Public Corporation for Development of Industry, Yamagata, Japan
Takao Akatsuka
- Institute for Life Support Technology, Yamagata Public Corporation for Development of Industry, Yamagata, Japan
Yasuhito Tanaka
- Department of Clinical Molecular Informative Medicine, Nagoya City University Graduate School of Medical Sciences, Nagoya, Japan
Masashi Mizokami
- Department of Clinical Molecular Informative Medicine, Nagoya City University Graduate School of Medical Sciences, Nagoya, Japan
Sumio Kawata
- Department of Gastroenterology, Course of Internal Medicine and Therapeutics, Yamagata University Faculty of Medicine, Yamagata University Health Administration Center, 1-4-12 Kojirakawa-machi, Yamagata 990-8560, Japan

Received 10 August 2007; received in revised form 6 March 2008; accepted 21 March 2008. published online 22 April 2008.

Associate Editor: R.P. Perrillo

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☆ The authors who have taken part in the research of this paper declared that they do not have a relationship with the manufacturers of the materials involved either in the past or present and they did not receive funding from the manufacturers to carry out their research. Dr. Kainuma is an employee of Tohoku Seiki Industries, Ltd., Yamagata, Japan.

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