Laboratory Testing for Hepatitis B

Introduction

June 2008

Welcome to Mayo Medical Laboratories’ Hot Topics. These presentations provide short discussions of current topics and may be helpful to you in your practice.

Our presenter for this program is Dr. Joseph Yao, from the Division of Clinical Microbiology at Mayo Clinic. Dr. Yao will be discussing Mayo’s approach to laboratory testing for Hepatitis B and attributes for currently available tests.

Introduction

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• Patient Case
• Patient Case
• Acute HBV Infection with Recovery
• Progression to Chronic HBV Infection
• Serologic Markers
• Serologic Methods
• Diagnosis
• Anti-HBs - Qualitative vs Quantitative
• Anti-HBs - Qualitative vs Quantitative
• Molecular Testing
• HBV DNA Quantification Assays
• Patient Case
• Chronic Hepatitis B Therapeutic Options
• Patient Case
• Virologic Breakthrough During Rx for CHB
• HBV Genotyping and Drug Resistance Tests
• HBV Resistance Mutations
• Patient Case
• Summary
• Questions?
• Disclosure