Fulminant reactivation of hepatitis B due to envelope protein mutant that escaped detection by monoclonal HBsAg ELISA.
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Abstract
The detection of a fatal case of reactivation of hepatitis B, in a previously vaccinated Indonesian patient after withdrawal of chemotherapy for lymphoma, was delayed because HBsAg was negative in a widely used monoclonal-antibody-based ELISA. The serum was later found to be strongly reactive for HBsAg by the polyclonal radioimmunoassay and for HBV DNA. PCR sequencing revealed a substitution of arginine for glycine at position 145 of HBsAg in the major neutralising epitope cluster, the a determinant, as well as a 2-aminoacid insertion of asparagine and threonine between positions 122 and 123, immediately upstream of this determinant.