Description
The appearance of anti-HBe in patients who are previously been HBeAg positive have a reduced risk of infectivity. Failure of appearance implicit disease activity and probable chronicity but patients with HBeAb will have chronic hepatitis. Chronic HBsAg carriers can be positive on either HBeAg or anti-HBe but will be less infectious when anti-HBe is present.
HBe can keep going for years but generally disappear earlier than anti-HBs or anti-HBc. Anti-HBe has not been found as the serologic symbol for hepatitis B infection.
Hepatitis Be Panel test includes Hepatitis Be Antibody and Hepatitis Be Antigen.
