Answers are grounded in this paper and cite their sources.
Background : Hepatitis B virus infection is a major public health problem around the globe in spite of the availability of a highly effective vaccine and improvements in antiviral therapy. This disease causes a chronic hepatitis, liver cirrhosis and hepatocellular carcinoma. Patients and methods: The cross sectional study consisted from 40 healthy pregnant females referred to privet clinic for primary health care for pregnant women in Baghdad from September 2010- to May 2011.Their bloods were analyzed for hepatitis B surface antigen, anti hepatitis core antibodies, anti hepatitis B envelope antibodies and anti hepatitis C antibodies by Immunochromatographic test (Acon-USA) . The results were compared to twenty non pregnant healthy control groups. Results: There was no significance difference between two groups regarding different parameters of HBV and HCV . Conclusions: Pregnancy had no effect on the frequencies of hepatitis B and C. The majority of healthy individuals either pregnant or not pregnant were positive for anti HBc antibodies that denote a past history of transient of HBV infection in episomal form.
No takes yet. Share an insight, caveat, or question.
Mahdi et al. (2015) studied this question.
Synapse has enriched 10 related papers. Consider them for comparative context: