HBV Immune Mutant

[ramesh48]

hi

i am married on oct 2009 and my wife is hbv immune mutant we came to know it on feb2010 after that i have taken vaccine of 3 shots in a period of 0,1,6 months and i am waiting for the final shot to be taken on 12 th month.mean while i have checked my antibodies level which is 155 iu/ml still i there any chance to get infected with it

i have read on net that there are chances with infection from a person who is hbv mutant

can you please help me in that regard.

[ramesh48]

thanks a lot for your answer and your suggetion.
next month we need to do some test for her as per doctor recomendation.
i will come up with those test result.

[stef2011]

by the way test which precore/bcp mutant is present and which hbv genotype because some can promote liver cancer much more and according to hbvdna quantity therapy by interferon, entecavir or tenofovir is necessary

[stef2011]

don t worry then the doctor is a little ignorant on hbv, maybe he thinks like 10 years ago, the hbeab positive form is the most common form of cronic hbv now and the precore/bcp mutation is normality now (we even know now this mutation is present in hbeag positive too)

the studies on hbv are very very advanced since that old view and the dangerous mutants are the hbsag and the polymerase mutants, actually the wild type never exsisted hbv is a always mutating virus with few mutants that can be more aggressive/dangerous

you are fully protected and your wife has normal cronic hbv which is also less aggressive than hbeag pos

[ramesh48]

her results are

hbsag positive

hbsab negative

hbeab positive

[stef2011]

what is her status?i think doctors used the wrong words she is probably precore or bcp mutants like most of hbv infections, the wild type one has become the less common.

this is the profile for precore bcp, pratically almost all of our hbv infections
hbsag pos, hbsab neg, hbeag neg, hbeab pos

these might be the dangerous hbsag mutants
hbsag neg or pos
hbsab pos
hbvdna pos

if you ahev both hbsab and hbcab positive you are at very little risk and in any case even if you had infection again you don t feel it

[ramesh48]

she is  hbsag mutant i heard that the incubation is 3 months but i finished 1 year of married life
got tested after 1 year i am still negative and also developed anti bodies also for that virus
still there are any chances

[stef2011]

still i there any chance to get infected with

yes if your wife has a hbsag immune escape muatant.which mutant does she have hbsag, precore, bcp or polymerase muatant?