Fulminant hepatitis B virus (HBV) infection in an infant following mother-to-child transmission of an e-minus HBV mutant: Time to relook at HBV prophylaxis in South African infants

Babatunde, O; Smuts, H; Eley, B; Korsman, S; de Lacy, R; Hardie, DR

Hardie, DR (reprint author), Groote Schuur Hosp, Natl Hlth Lab Serv, Cape Town, South Africa.; Hardie, DR (reprint author), Univ Cape Town, Fac Hlth Sci, Div Virol, Dept Pathol, Rondebosch, South Africa.

SAMJ SOUTH AFRICAN MEDICAL JOURNAL, 2018; 108 (5): 389

Abstract

The prevalence of hepatitis B virus (HBV) infection in pregnant women is high in South Africa (SA), yet prophylaxis to prevent mother-to- child transm......

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