Highlights that HBe antibody positivity in pregnant mothers does not eliminate the risk of fatal perinatal hepatitis B transmission.
Immunoprophylaxis of infants born to hepatitis B virus exposed mothersSir, We hope that the paper by Ewing and Davidson' on a fatal and fulminant hepatitis B virus infection in a 10 week baby born to white parents, with hepatitis B surface antigen (HBsAg) negative father and HBsAg positive, hepatitis Be antigen (HBeAg) negative, HBe antibody positive mother, should nullify the concept that HBe antibody positivity in a pregnant mother reduces the apparent risk of perinatal hepatitis B virus transmission.Apart from the present case, there have been at least three similar instances of hepatitis B virus infection in babies of anti-HBe positive
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A 1986 study conducted a letter in Hepatitis B virus infection (n=1). Maternal HBe antibody positivity was evaluated on Perinatal hepatitis B virus transmission.
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