Downs Louise O, Okanda Dorcas, Chirro Oscar, Zaharani Mwanakombo, Safari Benson, Aliyan Nadia, Andersson Monique I, Tanaka Yasuhito, Etyang Anthony O, Shimakawa Yusuke, Githinji George, Matthews Philippa C
Nuffield Department of Medicine, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK.
KEMRI-Wellcome Trust Research Programme, Kilifi, Kenya.
Open Forum Infect Dis. 2025 Mar 6;12(3):ofaf125. doi: 10.1093/ofid/ofaf125. eCollection 2025 Mar.
We undertook a point-of-care test for hepatitis B core-related antigen in adults with hepatitis B virus in Kilifi, Kenya. A positive test identified all individuals with a hepatitis B viral load >200 000 IU/mL and who were hepatitis B e antigen positive. It also correlated with a higher alanine aminotransferase (ALT) level ( = .03), raised aspartate transaminase-to-platelet ratio index (APRI) ( < .001), and higher elastography scores ( = .03).
我们在肯尼亚基利菲对感染乙型肝炎病毒的成年人进行了乙型肝炎核心相关抗原即时检验。检测呈阳性可识别出所有乙型肝炎病毒载量>200 000 IU/mL且乙型肝炎e抗原呈阳性的个体。它还与较高的丙氨酸转氨酶(ALT)水平(P = 0.03)、升高的天冬氨酸转氨酶与血小板比值指数(APRI)(P < 0.001)以及较高的弹性成像评分(P = 0.03)相关。