Screening Impact of Anti-HDV Reflex Testing Among HBsAg-Positive Individuals
Tor Regev-Sadeh, Ziv Neeman, Naama Schwartz, Orit Rozenberg, Fadi Abu Baker, Tarek Saadi, Mifleh Tatour, Rawi Hazzan · 2026
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Tor Regev-Sadeh and co-authors assess automatic hepatitis D testing in northern Israel in a 2026 cohort study. Hepatitis D causes severe liver disease but needs hepatitis B to replicate, so testing targets B carriers. Reflex testing, which runs automatically after a positive B result, replaced doctor-ordered testing in 2019.
Among more than thirteen hundred carriers, screening coverage jumped from under sixty percent to over ninety percent after the switch. Positivity doubled to about six and a half percent, and time from B diagnosis to D testing fell from years to near zero. People born in Ethiopia showed markedly higher positivity than others. Public health readers get a clear operational win. Automatic reflexes find hidden cases early, when monitoring and care can still change outcomes.
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| CREATOR | Tor Regev-Sadeh, Ziv Neeman, Naama Schwartz, Orit Rozenberg, Fadi Abu Baker, Tarek Saadi, Mifleh Tatour, Rawi Hazzan |
|---|---|
| YEAR | 2026 |
| COLLECTION | PAPERS |
| FORMAT | TXT |
| FILE SIZE | 19 KB |
| VERSION | 1.0 |
| LICENSE | CC BY 4.0 |
| RIGHTS | CC BY |
| SOURCE | Europe PMC |