The diversity of the hepatitis B surface antigen (HBsAg) has a significant impact on the performance of diagnostic screening tests and the clinical outcome of hepatitis B infection. Neutralizing or di
Abbreviations: IC = inactive HBsAg carriers; ACH = active chronic hepatitis; AdLD = advanced liver disease; OM = others mutations; TIM = translation initiation mutation (nts 1814–1819).*IC vs ACH, p =
Additional file 1. List of accession numbers of the sequences downloaded from NCBI GenBank and used for analysis in this study. The HBsAg escape and drug-resistant mutational analysis were performed u
