title: Hepatitis B carrier state produced by a blood transfusion.
abstract: A renal transplant patient was infected by a transfusion of blood from a chronic carrier of hepatitis B and he also became a symptomless carrier. Stored sera enabled detailed retrospective measurement of the rate of decline of passively transferred HBsAg, anti-HBc, and anti-HBe. Active HBsAg production was detected after two months and anti-HBc after six months; neither HBe nor anti-HBe was actively produced although there were many 42 nm HBV particles in the patient's serum.
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D002353:Carrier State / Q000635:transmission*; D005260:Female; D006509:Hepatitis B / Q000635:transmission*; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D065227:Transfusion Reaction