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Table 1: HBV Panel-table HBV Positive Master Panel (Clinical)
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Table 2: HBV Panel-table  HBV Positive Master Panel (Analytical)
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Table 3: HBV Panel-table HBV Negative Master Panel
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Table 4: List of HBsAg assays evaluated by ICBS (ICBS evaluation Center at PEI) Product name/ Manufacturer/ Test format/ Test structure/ Catalogue numbers/ Contact information

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Table 5: ICBS HBV Clinical Panel - Serological Profile 
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Table 6: Clinical Specificity of some commercially available HBsAg assays, using ICBS HBV Clinical and Negative Panels.

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Table S2-Analytical sensitivities of the 70 HBsAg test kits evaluated.

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Table S3: Day delay in detection of HBsAg during seroconversion at various assays' detection limits.

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Table S 4: Sensitivity of HBsAg assays in the ICBS HBsAg Clinical Panel and results for the samples which showed difficulties to be detected by some HBsAg test kits.

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Correct Table 2  Amino acid alignment of the 'a' determinant of the S gene of the eight samples of the ICBS HBsAg Quantitative Panel) + Correct Table 4  Amino acid alignment of the HBsAg mutant samples of the ICBS HBsAg Clinical Panel which caused reduced sensitivity in some HBsAg test kit

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