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. 2020 Mar 31;10:5947. doi: 10.1038/s41598-020-62445-6

Publisher Correction: Circulating serum HBsAg level is a biomarker for HBV-specific T and B cell responses in chronic hepatitis B patients

Jin Hyang Kim 1,#, Alip Ghosh 2,#, Natarajan Ayithan 2, Sara Romani 2, Arshi Khanam 2, Jang-June Park 1, Rene Rijnbrand 1, Lydia Tang 2, Michael J Sofia 1, Shyam Kottilil 2, Chris B Moore 1,#, Bhawna Poonia 2,✉,#
PMCID: PMC7105478  PMID: 32231233

Correction to: Scientific Reports 10.1038/s41598-020-58870-2, published online 04 February 2020

Supplementary Tables 1 and 2 are omitted from the Supplementary Information which accompanies this Article. Tables S1 and S2 appear below.

Table S1.

Demographic details of cohorts of HBslo and HBshi CHB patients and healthy subjects.

CHB (HBslo) CHB (HBshi) healthy donors (HD)

Serum HBsAg levels

(IU/ml)

<500 <50,000 N/A
number of subjects 23 16 10

median age (years)

(range)

54

(31–80)

35

(26–60)

37

(63–27)

Gender

(M/F)

20/3 12/4 6/4

Ethnicity

(Asian/African/Caucasian)

15/5/3 5/11/0 2/0/8

HBV DNA (log IU/ml)

(mean ± SD)

2.07 ± 1.04 4.43 ± 2.36 N/A

HBeAg

(-ve/+ve/UA)

20/2/1 12/4/0 N/A

anti-HBeAb

(-ve/+ve/UA)

5/14/4 5/6/5 N/A

median ALT (U/L)

(range)

31.0

(9.0–542.0)

41.0

(14.0–536.0)

N/A

median AST (U/L)

(range)

26.0

(15.0–430.0)

39.5

(17.0–259.0)

N/A

SD: standard deviation, UA: Unavailable, ALT: alanine transaminase, AST: aspartate transaminase, N/A: Not applicable.

Table S2.

Details of subjects in second cohort of CHB patients.

CHB
HBsAg <100 IU/ml
CHB
HBsAg >5,000 IU/ml
number of subjects 23 8

median age (years)

(range)

52

(34–71)

52

(39–72)

Gender

(M/F)

15/8 4/4

HBeAg

(-ve/+ve/UA)

14/1/8 1/1/6

UA: Unavailable.


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