. 2020 May 26;4(7):983–997. doi: 10.1002/hep4.1520

TABLE 2.

Study Cohorts

Study Cohorts	Hannover Cohort	DEFINE Cohort	Liverpool Cohort
Number of NA‐treated patients (n)	45	50	53
Number of retested plasma samples (n)	191	346 ^†	26
Evaluated HBV assays
Without RT	cobas HBV (cobas HPS*)	cobas HBV (cobas HPS*)	cobas HBV
Without RT	cobas HBV (cobas HPS*)	cobas HBV (cobas HPS*)	Xpert HBV
With RT	cobas HBV+RT	cobas HBV+RT	Aptima HBV (TMA)
With RT	cobas HBV+RT	Aptima HBV (TMA)	Aptima HBV (TMA)
Specific value for the study	Longitudinal follow‐up available	Longitudinal follow‐up available	Direct HBV‐RNA quantification performed

Original test that was used before the study.

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A total of 271 samples with enough remaining volume generated valid results for HBV DNA for both cobas HBV and Aptima HBV.