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Table 6 Tendency of infection periods among infants of immunoprophylaxis failure

From: Serological positive markers of hepatitis B virus in femoral venous blood or umbilical cord blood should not be evidence of in-utero infection among neonates

Group

HBV-DNA viral load

Intrauterine infection

Delivery infection

 

At birth

Follow up

 

1(a-d)

higha

high

+++

+

2(a-f)

lowb

high

++

++

3(a-g)

negative

high

+

+++

  1. More “+” means the degree of possibility is more likely
  2. aHBV-DNA > 6 log 10copies/mL
  3. bHBV-DNA <4 log 10copies/mL