Rare detection of occult hepatitis B virus infection in children of mothers with positive hepatitis B surface antigen.

The prevalence of occult Hepatitis B virus (HBV) infection in children was considerably varied from 0.1-64% in different reports. In this study we aimed to investigate the prevalence of occult HBV infection among the children born to mothers with positive hepatitis B surface antigen (HBsAg) in Jiang...

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Main Authors: Yong Liu, Jian Wen, Jie Chen, Chenyu Xu, Yali Hu, Yi-Hua Zhou
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2014-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC4226608?pdf=render