Prevalence and genotype distribution of hepatitis B virus among migrant workers in Lombok Island, Indonesia

Laura Navika Yamani¹, Eva Triani², Mochamad Amin³, Juniastuti⁴, Takako Utsumi⁵, Soetjipto⁶, Nasronudin³, Yoshihiko Yano⁷, Hak Hotta⁷, Yoshitake Hayashi⁷, Maria Inge Lusida^4
1 Institute of Tropical Disease; Department of Epidemiology, Faculty of Public Health; Indonesia-Japan Collaborative Research Center for Emerging and Re-emerging Infectious Diseases, Institute of Tropical Disease, Universitas Airlangga, Surabaya, East Java 60115, Indonesia
² Institute of Tropical Disease, Universitas Airlangga, Surabaya, East Java 60115; Faculty of Medicine, Mataram University, West Nusa Tenggara, Indonesia
³ Institute of Tropical Disease; Indonesia-Japan Collaborative Research Center for Emerging and Re-emerging Infectious Diseases, Institute of Tropical Disease, Universitas Airlangga, Surabaya, East Java 60115, Indonesia
⁴ Institute of Tropical Disease; Indonesia-Japan Collaborative Research Center for Emerging and Re-emerging Infectious Diseases, Institute of Tropical Disease; Department of Microbiology, Faculty of Medicine, Universitas Airlangga, Surabaya, East Java 60131, Indonesia
⁵ Indonesia-Japan Collaborative Research Center for Emerging and Re-emerging Infectious Diseases, Institute of Tropical Disease, Universitas Airlangga, Surabaya, East Java 60115, Indonesia; Center for Infectious Diseases, Kobe University Graduate School of Medicine, Kobe, Hyogo 6500017, Japan
⁶ Institute of Tropical Disease; Indonesia-Japan Collaborative Research Center for Emerging and Re-emerging Infectious Diseases, Institute of Tropical Disease; Department of Biochemistry, Faculty of Medicine, Universitas Airlangga, Surabaya, East Java 60131, Indonesia
⁷ Center for Infectious Diseases, Kobe University Graduate School of Medicine, Kobe, Hyogo 6500017, Japan

Correspondence Address:
Maria Inge Lusida
Institute of Tropical Disease; Indonesia-Japan Collaborative Research Center for Emerging and Re-emerging Infectious Diseases, Institute of Tropical Disease; Department of Microbiology, Faculty of Medicine, Universitas Airlangga, Surabaya, East Java 60131
Indonesia

Source of Support: This work was partly supported by the Grant-in-Aid from the Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology, Japan (16H05826), and a Grant-in-Aid from the Japan Initiative for Global Research Network on Infectious Disease (J-GRID) supported by the Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology, Japan. The present study was also supported by Grantin- Aid from Professor Dato’ Sri Tahir through Tahir professorship, Indonesia. We are also grateful to Hepatika Laboratory Mataram for providing serum samples obtained from migrant workers and University of Mataram, School of Medicine, Mataram West Nusa Tenggara, Conflict of Interest: None

DOI: 10.4103/1995-7645.273568