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What Does The HBsAG Neutralization Negative Result Mean?

I am a 52 year old woman an I donated blood to a blood center in April. I got my results back this week and the screening test HBsAg for hepatitis came back Positive and they did a confirmation test on called HBsAg neutralization which came back Negative. What does this mean for me?
Mon, 8 May 2017
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Hello hope you are very well What HBsAg indicates is that you were in contact with the virus, most of the patients usually clear the virus and negatively affect HBsAg. The persistence of HBsAg for more than six months can tell us about chronicity and in this case it is necessary to perform a complete panel of the Hepatitis B virus to be able to detect if your state was acute, some of the chronic variants or by vaccination. In addition, it is very important that your family or social circle should be near the detection of HBsAg, since the main routes of transmission are sexual and blood contact.
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What Does The HBsAG Neutralization Negative Result Mean?

Hello hope you are very well What HBsAg indicates is that you were in contact with the virus, most of the patients usually clear the virus and negatively affect HBsAg. The persistence of HBsAg for more than six months can tell us about chronicity and in this case it is necessary to perform a complete panel of the Hepatitis B virus to be able to detect if your state was acute, some of the chronic variants or by vaccination. In addition, it is very important that your family or social circle should be near the detection of HBsAg, since the main routes of transmission are sexual and blood contact.