Correlation between Hepatitis delta virus infection and heptitis B virus serum markers

Table 1 Positive rate of HDV infection in each HBV serum marker (+) group n (%)

	HBsAg	HBsAb	HBcAb	HBeAg	HBeAb
	(n = 227)	(n = 64)	(n = 208)	(n = 101)	(n = 111)
HDAg	17	0	17	8	9
Total anti-HD	5	0	5	0	5
anti-HD IgM	19	0	18	3	15
Total	40 (17.6)	0	39 (18.8)	11 (10.9)	28 (25.2)

Table 2 Positive rate of HDV in common HBV serology pattern groups n (%)

	Group A	Group B	Group C	Group D
	(n = 60)	(n = 21)	(n = 107)	(n = 101)
HDAg	0	0	9 (8.4)	8 (8.0)
Total anti-HD	0	0	5 (4.7)	0
anti-HD IgM	0	1 (4.8)	15 (14.0)	3 (3.0)
Total	0	1 (4.8)	28 (26.2)	11 (10.9)