For students who received the hepatitis B vaccine and the hepatitis B vaccine immune globulin as infants, 15 percent tested positive for a
hepatitis B antigen known as HBeAg.
Vertical transmission of
hepatitis B antigen in Taiwan.
Mario Rizzetto and his associates in Italy discovered a new antigen that they named "delta," which was slightly different than the
hepatitis B antigen. Through tireless research and experiments, Dr.
4) tested five brands of latex condoms and one sheep intestinal membrane condom for permeability to radiolabelled
Hepatitis B antigen (50% of the size of the Hepatitis B virus).
In these patients, who had been infected for a shorter time than the others in the treated group, the remaining evidence of infection--the
hepatitis B antigen HBsAg--also disappeared.