Commentary: Antenatal screening and targeting should be sufficient in some countries

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The most important step is to stop maternal transmissions of hepatitis B virus, with their high risk of long term carriage developing in the newborn. Thus, in Britain the Departments of Health advise that “antenatal clinics should … consider offering [HBsAg] screening to all antenatal patients” and that neonates born to positive mothers should be fully immunised. Even if, as Van Damme et al suggest, there was a universal immunisation programme for infants, those born to women infected with hepatitis B would still have to be identified and immediately given hepatitis B immunoglobulin or vaccine, or both, at birth, with at least …

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