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Hepatitis B infection acquired after haematopioetic stem cell transplant through horizontal mode.
Journal of medical virology - 1 Oct 2017
Chan Martin C W, Cheng Frankie W T, Sze Kin H, Wong Ann H, Leung Alex W K, Chan Paul K S, Li Chi K
Abstract excerpt
A 22 month old child with thalassaemia major received unrelated umbilical cord blood transplantation. She was born to mother of HBsAg carrier and received hepatitis B immunoglobulin at birth and hepatitis B vaccination. She was HBsAg negative and anti-HBs positive before transplantation. After transplant, she was taken care by her mother and found to be HBsAg positive at 2 year post-transplant. Genotyping of the...
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