Hepatitis B (LG-HBV)
Serious liver infection
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What is Hepatitis B (LG-HBV) Sequencing?
Hepatitis B is a serious liver infection due to the hepatitis B virus (LG-HBV). For a few people, hepatitis B infection becomes chronic, meaning it lasts over six months. Having chronic hepatitis B increases the risk of developing liver failure, liver cancer or cirrhosis a condition that permanently scars of the liver.
Most adults with hepatitis B recover completely when their signs and symptoms are severe. Infants and children are more likely to develop chronic (long-lasting) hepatitis B infection.
A vaccine can prevent hepatitis B, but there is no cure if you’ve got the condition. If you’re infected, taking certain precautions can aid the prevention of spreading the virus to others.
Who should need Hepatitis B Sequencing?
Signs and symptoms of hepatitis B vary from mild to severe. They normally appear about 1 – 4 months after you’ve been infected, although you could see them as early as 14 days post-infection. Most people, usually young children, may not have any symptoms.
Hepatitis B signs and symptoms may include:
- Abdominal pain
- Dark urine
- Fever
- Joint pain
- Loss of appetite
- Nausea and vomiting
- Weakness and fatigue
- Yellowing of your skin and the whites within your eyes (jaundice).
Risk Factors:-
Hepatitis B spreads through an experience of blood, semen or other body fluids from an infected person. Your risk factor of hepatitis B infection rises if you have:
- Unprotected sex with multiple sex partners or with someone that is infected with LG-HBV
- Share needles during IV drug use
- A man who has sex with other men
- Live with any person who has a chronic LG-HBV infection
- Are an infant born to an infected mother
- A job that exposes you to the blood of humans.
- Travel to regions with high infection rates of LG-HBV, such as Asia, the Pacific Islands, Africa and Eastern Europe.
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