Frequency of pregnant women with HBsAg in a Brazilian community Freqüência de gestantes portadoras do HBsAg em uma comunidade brasileira

The work reported here points up the real benefits provided by neonatal immunoprophylaxis of newborns delivered by mothers who are seropositive for the hepatitis B virus surface antigen HBsAg and underscores the need to properly identify such mothers in Brazil so that immunoprophylaxis can be undert...

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Main Authors: Geraldo Duarte, Marisa Márcia Mussi-Pinhata, Roberto Martinez, Cláudia Lemos, Eduardo M. Leite Figueiredo, Silvana Maria Quintana
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Pan American Health Organization 1997-01-01
Series:Revista Panamericana de Salud Pública
Online Access:http://www.scielosp.org/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S1020-49891997000100006