Published online Oct 15, 1998. doi: 10.3748/wjg.v4.iSuppl2.85
Revised: July 21, 1998
Accepted: August 13, 1998
Published online: October 15, 1998
AIM: To evaluated whether the nagative HBsAg inpatients carry HBV in the department of gastroenterology in our Hospital.
METHODS: The HBV DNA was measured with PCR technique 119 negative HBsAg digestive inpatients and compared with negative HBsAg hepatitis inpatients.
RESULTS: The results showed that 52.1% of the digestive inpatients in he department of gastroenterology were positive HBVM (HBsAg, anti-HBs, HBeAg, anti-HBe and anti-HBc), and 30.3% HBV DNA was positive in the patients. This two indexes were markedly lower compared with hepatitis. The difference of the rate of positive HBV DNA in the two groups was only in the HBV infective model of negative HBVM.
CONCLUSION: The results suggested that there were HBV carriers in negative HBsAg inpatients in the department of gastroenterology, and positive HBVM patients of the two groups actually come from the same group.