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Title
Fulminant hepatitis B in an infant born to a hepatitis Be antibody positive, DNA negative carrier.
Authors
Vanclaire, J; Cornu, C; Sokal, E M
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.
Publication
Archives of disease in childhood, 1991, Vol 66, Issue 8, p983