Table 1.

Demographic and laboratory characteristics of the enrolled 93 patients whose stored plasma samples were successfully genotyped

Variable	Study distribution
	Number	Percentage
Median age * [Range] 25 years [2–60]
Gender *
Female	56	60.87
Male	36	39.13
Viral load groups [IU/mL]
<2000	25	26.88
≥2000	68	73.12
HBeAg *
Negative	42	82.4
Positive	9	17.6

^*21 were missing age, 1 was missing gender and 42 were missing HBeAg