reactions are excluded) when the patient has a relevant clinical history.In patients without a relevant clinical history, serial assay of "e" antigen and "e" antibody may be preferable to serial assay of HBsAg titre.The former method is qualitative; the latter relies on precise quantitation of HbsAg to detect a clinically important decline in titre.
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Helen Chapel (1991) studied this question.