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Erschienen in: Virology Journal 1/2010

Open Access 01.12.2010 | Research

Detection of hepatitis B virus DNA among accepted blood donors in Nanjing, China

verfasst von: Yong Liu, Ping Li, Cuiping Li, Jinyong Zhou, Chao Wu, Yi-Hua Zhou

Erschienen in: Virology Journal | Ausgabe 1/2010

Abstract

Background

Posttransfusion hepatitis B virus (HBV) infection still occurs although its incidence has been substantially reduced since the introduction of screening of hepatitis B surface antigen (HBsAg) in blood donors. This study aimed to investigate the occult HBV infection in accepted blood donors in Nanjing, China.

Results

The lower detection limit of the nested PCR in this study was estimated to be 20 copies/ml HBV DNA. The positive rate of occult HBV infection was 0.13% (5 of 2972) in the accepted blood donors. Sequencing data showed that the amplified HBV sequences were not identical each other and to the known sequences cloned in our laboratory, excluding the false-positive caused by cross-contamination. Phylogenetic analysis showed that the HBV in all five donors was genotype B; a single base deletion was detected in the S region of HBV DNA from one donor, and no mutation was observed in the "a" determinant of HBsAg from four other donors. All five donors were negative for anti-HBs and one was positive for anti-HBc.

Conclusions

The prevalence of occult HBV infection in the accepted blood donors in Nanjing, China is relatively high. The data would be meaningful in adapting strategy to eliminate posttransfusion HBV infection in China.
Hinweise

Electronic supplementary material

The online version of this article (doi:10.​1186/​1743-422X-7-193) contains supplementary material, which is available to authorized users.
Yong Liu, Ping Li contributed equally to this work.

Competing interests

The authors declare that they have no competing interests.

Authors' contributions

YL and PL performed the experiments, analyzed the data, and drafted the manuscript and contributed equally to this work. CL collected the samples and assisted in the performance of the experiments. JZ carried out the DNA sequencing. CW interpreted the data and revised the manuscript. YHZ designed the study, interpreted the data and critically revised the manuscript. All authors read and approved the final manuscript.

Background

Hepatitis B virus (HBV) infection is one of the major health problems worldwide. The infection is usually defined by the presence of hepatitis B surface antigen (HBsAg) in serum or plasma. However, HBV may exist in humans without detectable HBsAg but with presence of HBV DNA in the serum and/or in the liver, i.e. the occult HBV infection [1]. The occult infection may result from the low viral load in circulation (usually <200 IU/ml) [2] or a mutant HBsAg which is not recognized by the monoclonal antibodies against HBsAg (anti-HBs) used in some commercial detection kits [1, 3].
Because of routine screening of blood donors for HBsAg, the incidence of transfusion-transmitted hepatitis B has been steadily reduced over the last four decades; however HBV transmission remains the most frequent transfusion-transmitted viral infection [46]. The residual risk of HBV transmission by transfusion is mainly associated with occult HBV infection in blood donors. Additionally, occult HBV infection also has significance in bone marrow and organ transplantations [2, 79].
Attributed to widespread use of hepatitis B vaccine and other strategies for control of HBV infection, the prevalence of HBsAg carrier rate in general population in China decreased from some 10.0% in 1980 s to 7.2% in 2006 [1012]. However, HBV infection is still endemic in China. Studies have shown that the prevalence of occult HBV infection is closely related to the endemicity of HBV infection [13, 14], however, the occult HBV infection in China has been less studied [1517]. Thus, we performed this study to investigate the prevalence of occult HBV infection in blood donors in Nanjing, an eastern region of China.

Results

The sensitivity of the nested PCR

To determine the sensitivity of the nested PCR developed in this study, we performed the PCR using 10-fold serially diluted template DNA extracted from a plasma with a concentration of 2000 copies/ml HBV DNA. As shown in Figure 1, the minimum copies detected by the three sets of the primers were all 20 copies/ml HBV DNA, equivalent to 1 copy per reaction. Thus, the lower detection limit of the nested PCR using the different primers was comparable.

Positive rate of HBV DNA in accepted blood donors

The samples in which HBV DNA was detected by at least two sets of the primers were considered to be positive for HBV. Of the 2972 accepted blood donors, 5 (0.17%) were determined to have occult HBV infection (Table 1). The plasmas of the nested PCR positive samples were also measured by fluorescent real-time PCR, and the results showed that the viral load in each sample was less than 500 copies/ml. However, when the three plasmas (200 μl for each) were subjected to DNA extraction and the extracted DNA was dissolved in 20 μl TE buffer, HBV DNA became detectable by the fluorescent quantitation PCR with 2.1 × 103 and 1.2 × 104 copies/ml respectively. Compared with the final volume of 40 μl DNA extracted from 20 μl plasmas according to the instruction of the real-time PCR kit, the DNA extraction steps in this study actually concentrated the plasma DNA with 20-fold. Thus, by reverting the concentrated DNA to the original level, the actual viral loads in these two plasmas were approximately 105, 110, and 600 copies/ml respectively (Table 1).
Table 1
Laboratory data of donors with occult HBV infectiona
Sample ID
Primers
Viral loadb (copies/ml)
Anti-HBc
 
S
Pre C/C
C
  
471
P
ND
P
ND
N
686
P
ND
P
ND
N
878
P
ND
P
110
P
1473
P
P
N
105
N
1475
P
P
P
600
N
ND: not done
N: negative
P: positive
aAll five donors were negative for HBsAg and anti-HBs.
bDNA was extracted from 200 μl plasma by phenol-chloroform.
Of the five HBV DNA positive samples, one was positive for anti-HBc and four others were negative, and all of them were negative for anti-HBs. The ALT of all the positive samples was normal (Table 1).

HBV sequencing and genotyping

The PCR products amplified by the S region primers were sequenced; the readable sequences were more than 180 bps and contained the sequences of the "a" determinant of HBsAg. Sequencing data demonstrated that none of them was identical to the known sequences detected in our laboratory and there were at least 2 bps differences among the different plasmas, excluding the false positive caused by cross-contamination. A single base deletion was detected in the S region from a donor, and no mutation in the "a" determinant was observed in four other donors after comparing with the known wild sequences in the GenBank. Phylogenetic analysis of the partial S-gene sequences from the five samples and corresponding sequences recovered from GenBank demonstrated that the viruses in the five samples all belonged to genotype B (Figure 2).

Discussion

We investigated the occult HBV infection by detecting HBV DNA in plasmas from accepted blood donors in China with nested PCR and found that the positive rate of HBV DNA was 0.17% (5/2972). Compared with the risk of posttransfusion HBV infection in countries in which nucleic acid amplification tests (NAT) are used to screen HBV in blood donors [18, 19], the data in the present study indicate that there is still substantial risk for posttransfusion HBV infection in China despite screening for HBsAg in blood donors.
Although nested PCR is sometimes associated with the risk of false-positive results, the HBV DNA detected in this study is unlikely to be caused by cross-contamination or carryover because of the following reasons: (1) we took particular precautions in performing each PCR step as suggested by Kwok and Higuchi [20]; (2) the DNA extraction and each PCR round were undertaken in different rooms; (3) the positive samples were separately tested with two different sets of primers and retested by real-time PCR; and (4) most importantly, the sequencing data showed that all sequences of the positive samples were not identical to each other and to the sequences amplified in our laboratory. On the other hand, the nested PCR used in this study was highly sensitive as it detected as low as 20 copies/ml HBV DNA (Figure 1). Although detection of HBV DNA using liver tissue DNA extracts can increase the positive rate of occult HBV infection [21], it is not feasible to get liver tissues from the blood donors. Thus, under the current circumstance and with the available techniques, the positive rate of occult HBV infection detected in this study is less likely to be underestimated.
The prevalence of occult HBV infection in blood donors appears to be varied in different countries or even in different areas in a country. The variations may be associated with the different assays used in the various surveys and the HBV endemicity. It has been documented that low, intermediate, or high endemic areas have different occult HBV infection rate; the NAT tests in blood donors demonstrated that occult HBV infection in regions with low HBV endemicity, such as Western countries is rare, whereas in Japan and Hong Kong it is much higher [22]. Indeed, the occult HBV infection rate (0.17%) in blood donors in the present study is higher than that in Western countries like Canada and Germany [23, 24], and comparable to that in Ghana [25].
In China, a few relevant studies show substantially divergent prevalence of occult HBV infection in the blood donors, ranging from 0.028% (8/28800) in Guangdong Province [26] and 2.71% (18/1698) in Zhejiang Province [27] to as high as 9.78% (57/583) in Hunan Province [28]. The relatively low rate in Guangdong may be due to the mini-pool (24 samples) approach used in that study. In the present study, we used real-time PCR to detect HBV DNA in all five plasmas with occult HBV infection, but none of them had a detectable level at a lower detection limit of 500 copies/ml. On the other hand, the high frequency of 9.8% found among accepted blood donors in Hunan [28] is questionable, since that report did not exclude the possibility of cross-contaminations.
Several factors are involved in the recognition of the occult HBV infection, including viral variants carrying mutant HBsAg that are not recognized by specific antibodies used in assays for HBsAg [2932] and low level expression of HBV genes [3335]. In the present study, the mutation in the "a" determinant of S region was observed in only one donor and there was no mutation in the "a" determinant in four other donors, yet their HBV DNA levels were only between 105 and 600 copies/ml. Thus, strong suppression of viral replication and gene expression may have resulted from the host immune responses [36]. Alternatively, since four of the five occult infections did not show any serological HBV markers, it is also possible that these samples were collected during the seroconversion window period, in which case further follow-up may have identified this serologic phenomenon [37]. However, this issue can not be clarified since we did not follow-up these blood donors.
The occurrence of posttransfusion hepatitis B in China has been substantially reduced since the introduction of HBsAg screening of blood donors. However, the true incidence remains unknown because of the obstacles in conducting such studies. In the present survey, we found that 0.17% of the accepted blood donors had occult HBV infection, which is much higher than that observed in Western counties as well as in Japan and Hong Kong. Although the conversion of residual risk of occult HBV infection into the true rate of infection is largely unknown, the results in the chimpanzee model demonstrate that as low as 10 copies of HBV may result in half of the animals being infected, irrespective of HBV genotype [38, 39]. Considering that our blood donors had HBV DNA exceed 100 copies/ml, the recipients of these five occult HBV carrier donors were highly possible to be infected with HBV although we did not follow-up the recipients. Indeed, numerous reports have documented that occult HBV infection in blood donors may cause posttransfusion hepatitis B [4042].
Currently, only a few financially prosperous cities in China detect HBV DNA in blood donors by minipool NAT. We consider that NAT for HBV DNA as a routine screening in blood donors in China will be cost-effectiveness, since the risk of HBV transmission by transfusion in China is relatively high based on our data. Even in countries with low HBsAg prevalence such as USA and some European countries, minipool NAT has been used as a routine test in blood donors [43].

Conclusions

The data in the present study will be meaningful in setting up a strategy to prevent posttransfusion hepatitis B in China. Because of relatively high rate of occult HBV infection in blood donors in China, tests for HBV DNA in blood donors would substantially reduce the incidence of posttransfusion hepatitis B.

Methods

Blood donors

We randomly collected plasma samples from 2972 accepted volunteer donors at the Nanjing Red Cross Blood Center between February 2007 and April 2008. Each sample was not directly collected from the donor, but collected from one tubing segment connected to the bag of the donor's blood; each tubing segment was cut with a fresh blade to avoid cross-contamination among samples. According to the policy set up by the China Health Ministry, an accepted donor is defined as a generally healthy person with normal alanine aminotransferase (ALT), negative for HBsAg and antibodies against hepatitis C virus (HCV), HIV, and treponema pallidum. Thus, the laboratory tests in all the 2972 donors showed to be normal ALT and negative for HBsAg, anti-HCV, anti-HIV, and antibody against treponema pallidum; the HBsAg in each donor was tested in parallel by two different commercial enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay (ELISA) kits. The donors' average age was 24.9 years (range, 18-53). They were 1475 males and 1497 females. The plasmas were stored at -20°C. All the experiments were approved by the Ethics Committee of Nanjing Drum Tower Hospital, Nanjing University Medical School, in accordance with guidelines of the Nation Health and Medical Research Council of China.

Plasma DNA isolation

DNA was extracted from plasma using phenol-chloroform extraction by the standard method. Briefly, 200 μl plasma was treated with proteinase K at 50°C for 3 h, and then DNA was extracted twice by phenol-chloroform and rinsed once by 70% ethanol. Finally, 20 μl Tris-EDTA (TE) buffer was added to each sample to dissolve DNA.

Detection of HBV-DNA by nested PCR

Nested PCR was performed using specific primers derived from the regions coding for HBsAg, hepatitis B core antigen (HBcAg) and pre-C respectively as previously reported with minor modifications [4446]. Primer sequences are shown in Table 2. In brief, the first round PCR was carried out in a final volume of 50 μl containing 1.25 units of Taq polymerase (Takara, Dalian, China) and 5 μl DNA template. The amplification was carried out for 35 cycles (20 seconds at 94°C, 30 seconds at 55°C, 45 seconds at 72°C) after initial denaturation for 2 min. A final extension step was performed for 10 min at 72°C. The second round PCR was carried out using 5 μl of the first PCR product under the same condition as the first round PCR except 25 pmol of each internal primer was used. The PCR products were electrophoresed on 1.5% agarose gel and stained with ethidium bromide, and then photographed by image analysis system (UVP, Upland, CA).
Table 2
Primers used for nested PCR
Region
Name
Sequences 5' to 3'
Amplicon size (bp)
S
1stS192F
TCGTGTTACAGGCGGGGTTT
513
 
1stS704R
CGAACCACTGAACAAATGGC
 
 
2ndS455F
CAAGGTATGTTGCCCGTTTG
233
 
2ndS687R
GGCACTAGTAAACTGAGCCA
 
C
1stC1869F
ACTGTTCAAGCCTCCAAGCT
600
 
1stC2468R
GGAATACTAACATTGAGATTCCCGAG
 
 
2ndC2015F
TGCTCTGTATCGGGAGGC
280
 
2ndC2294R
AGTGCGAATCCACACTC
 
Pre C/C
1st 2023F
GCCTTAGAGTCTCCTGAGCA
442
 
1st 2464R
GTCCAAGGAATACTAAC
 
 
2nd 2046F
CCTCACCATACTGCACTCA
340
 
2nd 2385R
GAGGGAGTTCTTCTTCTAGG
 
To determine the lower detection limit of the nested PCR in this study, we carried out the PCR using 10-fold serially diluted template DNA, which was extracted from a sample with known concentration of HBV DNA with 2000 copies/ml. The DNA was extracted from 200 μl serum and dissolved in 200 μl TE.
To prevent carryover or cross contamination during the extraction of DNA from plasmas and PCR, each step of the procedure was performed in separate areas with dedicated equipment. Negative controls, including plasmas DNA from normal subjects without HBV infection and distilled water, and a positive control (an HBV DNA positive plasma diluted to 20 copies/ml) were always included in every nested PCR test.

Quantitative assay of HBV DNA

Plasma HBV DNA in occult HBV infections was quantified by real-time PCR with a commercially available fluorescent real-time PCR assay (Shenyou Biotechnology, Shanghai, China) which had a strict internal quality control and passed the Clinical Laboratory Center of Chinese Ministry of Health external quality assessment on the DNA Engine Opticon 2 System (MJ Research, Waltham, MA). Plasma DNA was extracted using a commercial kit (Shenyou Biotechnology) from 20 μl plasma by boiling. The PCR was run for 40 cycles and the fluorescence signal of the amplicons was detected by the DNA Engine Opticon 2 System. The lower detection limit of this assay was 500 copies/ml with a linear range of up to 108 copies/ml.

Detection of serological markers for HBV infection

Anti-HBc of the HBV DNA positive samples was measured by ELISA using the Diagnostic kit (Huakang Biotechnology, Shenzhen, China) for anti-HBc.

HBV DNA sequencing and HBV genotyping

The PCR products amplified by S region primers were purified and directly sequenced on an ABI Prism 3130 sequencer (Applied Biosystems, Hitachi, Tokyo, Japan) after reaction with BigDye Terminator v3.1 (Applied Biosystems, Foster, CA). Sequence analysis and comparison were conducted by using molecular programs deposited in the web site of the National Centre for Biotechnology Information http://​www.​ncbi.​nlm.​nih.​gov/​. The sequences were compared with the same region of HBV sequences from different genotypes found in the genotyping reference set available on the NCBI website (URL: http://​www.​ncbi.​nih.​gov/​projects/​genotyping/​view.​cgi?​db=​2). The phylogenetic tree was constructed according to previous methods [47].

Acknowledgements

This study was supported by a Special Research Grant (RC2007005) for the Principal Fellow from the Department of Health, Jiangsu Province, and by a grant (No. 200801088) from the Department of Science and Technology of Nanjing City, China.
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Competing interests

The authors declare that they have no competing interests.

Authors' contributions

YL and PL performed the experiments, analyzed the data, and drafted the manuscript and contributed equally to this work. CL collected the samples and assisted in the performance of the experiments. JZ carried out the DNA sequencing. CW interpreted the data and revised the manuscript. YHZ designed the study, interpreted the data and critically revised the manuscript. All authors read and approved the final manuscript.
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Metadaten
Titel
Detection of hepatitis B virus DNA among accepted blood donors in Nanjing, China
verfasst von
Yong Liu
Ping Li
Cuiping Li
Jinyong Zhou
Chao Wu
Yi-Hua Zhou
Publikationsdatum
01.12.2010
Verlag
BioMed Central
Erschienen in
Virology Journal / Ausgabe 1/2010
Elektronische ISSN: 1743-422X
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1186/1743-422X-7-193

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