Table 1.

Primers for full length HBsAg amplification and their nucleotide position.

Primer code	Primer sequence	Primer length	Nucleotide position
SBFO10	5′ GGGTCACCATATTCTTGG 3′	19	2859–2878
SBRO20	5′ CCCACCTTAGAGTCCAAGG 3′	19	873–892
SBFI30	5′ GAACAAGAGCTACCGCATGGG 3′	21	2877–2898
SBRI40	5′ CAAGAGACAAAAGAAAATTGG 3′	21	810–789

Nucleotide positions are based on the HBV reference sequence (contained in 3221 bp) that was retrieved from DDBJ/EMBL/GenBank.