Molecular Detection of Occult Hepatitis B virus in plasma and urine of renal transplant patients in Khartoum state Sudan

Hepatitis B virus (HBV) is a virus species belonging to Hepadnaviridae family which is partial double-stranded DNA viruses (Pourkarim et al., 2014). This virus affects nearly 2 billion people around the world (Wang et al., 2019) and it has been reported as one of the two major causing and risk factors (the second is Hepatitis C Virus) for hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) in the Sudan (Abou et al., 2009). Several studies have characterized HBV as extremely endemic in Sudan as the hepatitis B surface antigen HBsAg was reported to have a prevalence of approximately 16%-20% in the Sudanese population rate (Elduma and Saeed, 2011).

Source: International Journal of Infectious Diseases - May 31, 2020 Category: Infectious Diseases Authors: Sabah A.E. Ibrahim, Sofia B. Mohamed, Sumaya Kambal, Aya Diya-Aldeen, Sara Ahmed, Batool Faisal, Fatima Ismail, Amel Ibrahim, Amel Sabawe, Osama Mohamed Source Type: research