The US Preventive Services Task Force have now updated their 2004 recommendations for screening for HBV infection in nonpregnant adolescents and adults. After reviewing the evidence of the risks and benefits of antiviral treatment, the benefits of education and behavioural counselling and the association between immediate and clinical outcomes after therapy, the Task Force recommends that people at high risk of infection should be screened for HBV infection.
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Updated recommendations for HBV screening. Nat Rev Gastroenterol Hepatol 11, 392 (2014). https://doi.org/10.1038/nrgastro.2014.95
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