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http://www.virologyj.com/content/12/1/153
Hepatitis B surface gene variants isolated from blood donors with overt and occult HBV infection in north eastern Egypt
Rania Kishk1, Nader Nemr2, Abeer Elkady34, Mohamed Mandour5, Mohamed Aboelmagd2, Nevene Ramsis5, Mohamed Hassan2, Nashaat Soliman2, Sayuki Iijima4, Shuko Murakami4, Yasuhito Tanaka4* and Mostafa Ragheb6
* Corresponding author: Yasuhito Tanaka [email protected]
Author Affiliations
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Department of Microbiology and Immunology, Faculty of Medicine, Suez Canal University, El Salam District, Ismaïlia, Egypt
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Department of Endemic and Infectious diseases, Faculty of Medicine, Suez Canal University, El Salam District, Ismaïlia, Egypt
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Department of Clinical and Chemical Pathology, Faculty of Medicine, South Valley University, Qena, Egypt
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Department of Virology and Liver Unit, Nagoya City University Graduate School of Medical Science, Nagoya 467-8601, Japan
5
Department of Clinical Pathology, Faculty of Medicine, Suez Canal University, El Salam District, Ismaïlia, Egypt
6
Department of Internal Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, Aljouf University, Sakaka, KSA, Saudi Arabia
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Virology Journal 2015, 12:153 doi:10.1186/s12985-015-0389-y
The electronic version of this article is the complete one and can be found online at: http://www.virologyj.com/content/12/1/153
Received: 30 March 2015
Accepted: 21 September 2015
Published: 30 September 2015
© 2015 Kishk et al.
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Abstract
Background
Major hydrophilic region in genomic HBV extending from aa99 to aa169, clustered with a highly conformational epitope, is critical to the antigenicity of hepatitis B surface antigen (HBsAg) and may affect the diagnosis of HBV in HBV screening test. So, this study aimed to characterize variants of S gene product of hepatitis B virus (HBV) isolated from patients with overt or occult HBV infection in north-eastern Egypt.
Methods
The study included sera of two different groups of volunteer blood donors (VBDs), 82 with overt HBV that were positive for HBsAg and anti-HBc and 343 donors negative for HBsAg eligible for donation. Of the latter group, only 44 were positive for anti-HBc. All anti-HBc positive sera were subjected to HBV DNA detection and partial sequence analysis targeting the HBV S gene.
Results
HBV DNA was detected in 22.7 % of HBsAg-/anti-HBc + (10/44 patients) and in 90 % of HBsAg + donors (74/82 patients) with significant statistical difference (P = 0.0001). Phylogenetic analysis showed that HBV strains retrieved from both groups were of genotype D. Amino acid escape mutation T125M was detected in only 2 samples of the occult infection group and in none of the overt group (P = 0.01). Different amino acid substitutions were identified in overt infection group: S143L/T (16.2 %, 12/74) and P120T/S (2.7 %, 2/74). Q129R was significantly more frequent in cases with occult HBV infection (40 %, 4/10) than overt group (6.8 %, 5/74) (P = 0.01).
Conclusions
HBV genotype D predominated both in patients with overt and occult HBV infection. Different profiles of amino acid substitutions in the major hydrophilic region were seen in these two groups in Egypt.
Keywords: Occult HBV; Genotype D; Escape mutation
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