Prevalence, risk factors and virological profile of chronic hepatitis b virus infection in pregnant women in India

Journal of Medical Virology

Volumn 83, Issue 6, 2011, Pages 962-967

  Pande, Chandana ^a,b   Sarin, Shiv Kumar ^a,b,c   Patra, Sharda ^d   Bhutia, Kazila ^d   Mishra, Siddhartha Kumar ^a   Pahuja, Sangeeta ^d   Jain, Manjula ^d   Srivastava, Shikha ^a   Dar, Sadaf Bashir ^a   Trivedi, Shubha Sagar ^d   Mukhopadhyay, Chinmay K ^b   Kumar, Ashish ^a,b,c  

^a G B PANT HOSPITAL   (India)

^b JAWAHARLAL NEHRU UNIVERSITY   (India)

^c INSTITUTE OF LIVER AND BILIARY SCIENCES   (India)

^d LADY HARDINGE MEDICAL COLLEGE   (India)

Author keywords

Antenatal; Hepatitis B; Intrauterine infection; Perinatal transmission; Pregnancy; Screening

Indexed keywords

ALANINE AMINOTRANSFERASE; BILIRUBIN; GENOMIC DNA; HEPATITIS B SURFACE ANTIGEN; HEPATITIS B(E) ANTIGEN; VIRUS DNA;

ALANINE AMINOTRANSFERASE BLOOD LEVEL; ARTICLE; BLOOD TRANSFUSION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DENTAL SURGERY; ENZYME IMMUNOASSAY; ENZYME LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; FEMALE; GENOTYPE; GYNECOLOGIC SURGERY; HEPATITIS B; HEPATITIS B VIRUS; HUMAN; INDIA; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MULTIPLEX POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; NONHUMAN; PREGNANT WOMAN; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; REAL TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RISK FACTOR; SEROPREVALENCE; TERTIARY HEALTH CARE;

BLOOD TRANSFUSION; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; DNA, VIRAL; FEMALE; GENOTYPE; HEPATITIS B SURFACE ANTIGENS; HEPATITIS B VIRUS; HEPATITIS B, CHRONIC; HUMANS; INDIA; INFANT, NEWBORN; INFECTIOUS DISEASE TRANSMISSION, VERTICAL; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY COMPLICATIONS, INFECTIOUS; PREVALENCE; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; QUESTIONNAIRES; RISK FACTORS; SURGICAL PROCEDURES, OPERATIVE; TATTOOING;

HEPATITIS B VIRUS;

EID: 79954589781     PISSN: 01466615     EISSN: 10969071     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/jmv.22017     Document Type: Article

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