Article
Failed postnatal immunoprophylaxis for hepatitis B: characteristics of maternal hepatitis B virus as risk factors.
Clinical infectious diseases : an official publication of the Infectious Diseases Society of America - 1 Jul 1998
Ngui S L, Andrews N J, Underhill G S, Heptonstall J, Teo C G
Abstract excerpt
A retrospective case-control study was conducted to determine why some infants born full-term without obstetric intervention to hepatitis B e antigen (HBeAg)-seropositive mothers become infected by hepatitis B virus (HBV) despite having received passive-active immunoprophylaxis. Cases and control...
Topics
- Case-Control Studies
- DNA, Viral
- Female
- Hepatitis B
- Hepatitis B Surface Antigens
- Hepatitis B Vaccines
- Hepatitis B e Antigens
- Hepatitis B virus
- Humans
- Immunization, Passive
- Immunoglobulins
- Infant, Newborn
- Infectious Disease Transmission, Vertical
- Mutation
- Pregnancy
- Pregnancy Complications, Infectious
- Retrospective Studies
- Risk Factors