Possible Paternal Hepatitis B Virus Infection with Different Clinical Courses between Siblings: A Report of Two Cases

Table 1

Laboratory results of the first patient.

	HBsAg	Anti-HBs	IgM anti-HBc	HBeAg	Anti-HBe	HBV DNA (log IU/L)	ALT (IU/L)	AST (IU/L)
Age	‒	‒	‒	‒	‒	‒	‒	‒
1 year and 4 months	Positive	Negative	Positive	Positive	Negative	>8.2	583	406
1 year and 7 months	‒	‒	Negative	Negative	Positive	N.D.	11	29
8 years and 0 month	Negative	Positive	‒	‒	‒	N.D.	13	25

HBsAg, hepatitis B surface antigen; Anti-HBs, antihepatitis B surface antibody; IgM anti-HBc, immunoglobulin M antibody to hepatitis B core antigen; HBeAg, hepatitis B envelope antigen; Anti-HBe, antihepatitis B envelope antibody; HBV DNA, hepatitis B virus-deoxyribonucleic acid; ALT, alanine aminotransferase; AST, aspartate aminotransferase; ‒, no result available; N.D, not detected.