Summary of HBV genome detection in whole peripheral blood mononuclear cells and subsets isolated from 14 HBV mono-infected patients.

a HBV DNA tested using HBV specific Core, Surface, and Polymerase primers. All subsets from HBV mono-infected cases tested HBV cccDNA negative. b ID# 12B –follow up sample collected but patient treatment naïve. c Follow up patient samples collected from # 1B, 3B, 8B, 13B after initiation of antivirals, all tested HBV DNA negative in serum according to a real-time PCR. N/A–samples excluded from PCR analysis if <80% cell purity by Flow Cytometry analysis or insufficient template. In some cases, all the whole PBMC were seperated into cell fractions and there were no unsorted cells left-over available to test for HBV cccDNA. Summary of HBV genome detection in whole peripheral blood mononuclear cells and subsets isolated from 14 HBV mono-infected patients.