KROK 1 2023 – Question 112 · KROK (Medicine) · Microbiology, Virology, and Immunology
Laboratory findings of a patient diagnosed with jaundice are as follows: HBsAg-, HBeAg-, anti-HBsAg+, anti-HBsM-, HCAg+. What disease can be characterized by such laboratory findings?
- A. Hepatitis B reinfection
- B. Chronic hepatitis B with low replicative activity
- C. Hepatitis B relapse
- D. Hepatitis C with history of hepatitis B
- E. —
Hint
Negative surface antigen with positive antibodies to it means hepatitis B infection is over; ask what else the remaining positive antigen result could indicate.
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