Prevention of vertical transmission of hepatitis B
- 1 August 1984
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Wiley in The Medical Journal of Australia
- Vol. 141 (4) , 213-216
- https://doi.org/10.5694/j.1326-5377.1984.tb132752.x
Abstract
Many chronic carriers of hepatitis B virus acquire the infection from their mothers at birth; the risk is greatest if the mother either has acute hepatitis B or is a hepatitis Be antigen (HBeAg)‐posi...This publication has 17 references indexed in Scilit:
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