I have worked on the prevalence of Occult hepatitis B among hemodialysis patient at Th-Qar city south of Iraq (paper in press) and I think this form of the disease represents a serious problem in view of spreading the infection in communities depending on serological methods especially in highly susceptible groups like blood donors or hemodialysis patients. this form of the disease which is serologically silent and can be easily missed can spread to the community. Additionally, the prevalence of occult hepatitis B usually in association with prevalence of overt hepatitis B. \thus now I'm working on review undertake the prevalence of occult hepatitis B infection among Arab countries if anyone like to contribute, please communicate with me
Dear
please contact with Dr mohammad kazemi :
https://scholar.google.com/citations?hl=en&user=-Js5ExgAAAAJ
I totally agree with your opinion. That is why we have started a projet on the same idea but we're planning on using Molecular Biology marqueurs to identify the occult infection.
I suggest large scal study in Arabic countries to estimate the prevalence