Vanclaire J, Cornu C, Sokal EM. Fulminant hepatitis B in an infant born to a hepatitis Be antibody positive, DNA negative carrier.
Arch Dis Child 1991;
66:983-5. [PMID:
1929497 PMCID:
PMC1793473 DOI:
10.1136/adc.66.8.983]
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Abstract
A boy was born to a mother who was a chronic hepatitis B virus (HBV) carrier. She was hepatitis Be (HBe) antibody positive and HBe antigen and HBV-DNA negative. The boy had not received hepatitis B vaccine and died from fulminant hepatitis at 3 months of age. This case demonstrates the need to vaccinate babies of HBe antibody positive, HBe antigen negative carriers.
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