Molecular and serological characterization of occult hepatitis B among blood donors in Maputo, Mozambique.
PMID: 32997000
2020
Memorias do Instituto Oswaldo Cruz
Abstract: One escape mutation (T123A) associated with OBI and various amino acid substitutions for genotype A1 and E were observed.
Result: One escape mutation (T123A) associated with OBI in one sample was observed.
Table: T123A
Discussion: In particular, T123A escape mutation located in the MHR of the S gene was distinctly present in one patient (sample BSM590).
Discussion: This finding is in concordance with several studies reporting the occurrence of T123A mutation in OBI individuals, changing its immunogenicity and making HBsAg unrecognizable by available commercial
Molecular characterization of hepatitis B virus in blood donors in Botswana.
Result: P120Q (4.3%), T123A (4.3%), I126S, M133 T (8.7%), F134 L (4.3%) substitutions were found which might potentially affect HBsAg detection.
Immune-escape mutations and stop-codons in HBsAg develop in a large proportion of patients with chronic HBV infection exposed to anti-HBV drugs in Europe.
Method: The sequences were examined for known vaccine escape mutations (sG145R/A, sP142S, sI/T126A/N/I/S, sQ129H/R, sM133L, sD144A/E, sP120S/E, sK141E, sP134I, and sT116N), immunoprophylaxis escape mutations (
Investigation of a Novel Hepatitis B Virus Surface Antigen (HBsAg) Escape Mutant Affecting Immunogenicity.
Discussion: Antigenic index (Ai) values of four or more amino acids around amino acid position 123 were altered by a magnitude of -0.4 to +0.2 or more by the T123A or T123N mutations, respectively.
Discordant diagnostic results due to a hepatitis B virus T123A HBsAg mutant.
PMID: 27133305
2016
Diagnostic microbiology and infectious disease
Abstract: Such discordance has been observed repeatedly in Canada with samples having a mutation at HBsAg codon 123 (sT123A).
Abstract: The sT123A mutation leads to loss of detection by immunoassays commonly used in Canadian diagnostic laboratories, which may produce misleading results and diagnoses.
Ultradeep Sequencing for Detection of Quasispecies Variants in the Major Hydrophilic Region of Hepatitis B Virus in Indonesian Patients.
PMID: 26202119
2015
Journal of clinical microbiology
Abstract: The most frequent MHR variants related to immune evasion in the major and intermediate populations were P120Q/T, T123A, P127T, Q129H/R, M133L/T, and G145R.