I do a test for hepatitis B The values are: 1,23 patient value, with a 1.0 cutoff value. This says I m infected? I m not vaccinated There are chances of false positives? What causes lead to a false positive? Need to know about margins of error and whether the value of 1,23, may appear to doubt it will be, because it close to the cutoff value Thank you very much
Hello.welcome.Bag is present from 1 to 6 months after the exposure.Head(e antigen) is present 1 to 3 months after acute illness and means high infectivity. Antibodies to Bag(anti-HBC) imply past infection. Persistence of Bag for more than 6 months defines carrier state(chronic infection). Get your checked for these. Good luck.