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QUERY REGARDING HEPATITIS B AND C
I want to ask the doctors that within how many days or months can Hepatitis B and C be detected in blood test after the onset of infection ?
Can a person who has previously been vaccinated for Hepatitis B get the Hepatitis B infection ?
Are the tests HbsAg and Anti-HCV the preliminary tests go for in such cases ?
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It’s variable from person to person. If u want to check if a person has the infection u can do HbsAg and Anti HCV. if u want to check if a person has sufficient immunity against the disease then u can check for antibodies to Hep B,C respectively.
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