Vertical Transmission of Hepatitis B Surface Antigen in Carrier Mothers in Two West London Hospitals

Overview

Journal Arch Dis Child

Specialty Pediatrics

Date 1979 Sep 1

PMID 518104

Citations 6

Authors

D Woo

M Cummins

P A Davies

D R Harvey

R Hurley

A P WATERSON

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Abstract

126 children of 102 hepatitis B surface antigen (HBsAg) carrier mothers were delivered at Hammersmith Hospital and Queen Charlotte's Maternity Hospital, between 1971 and mid-1978. Blood tests on 110 of these children showed that 8 out of the 18 with Chinese mothers, but only 6 out of the 92 other children, have become HBsAg positive. The presence of maternal hepatitis B e antigen (HBeAg) is also significantly correlated with transmission of HBsAg to the children. The management of children whose mothers are carriers is discussed.

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