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Affiliation
Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, MO, United States. Electronic address: mlisker@wustl.edu.; University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, CA, United States.; University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA, United States.; Keck Medicine at University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA, United States.; University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA, United States.; Georgetown University Hospital, Washington, DC, United States.; Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA, United States.; Queens Medical Center, Honolulu, HI, United States.; Ocshner Medical Center, New Orleans, LA, United States.; Cedar Sinai Medical Center, Los Angeles, CA, United States.; University of Minnesota Masonic Children's Hospital, Minneapolis, MN, United States.
Authors
Lisker-Melman Mauricio, Khalili Mandana, Belle Steven H, Terrault Norah A, Lin Hsing-Hua S, Smith Coleman I, Chung Raymond T, Tsai Naoky, Bzowej Natalie H, Tran Tram T, Schwarzenberg Sarah Jane
Studies
Abstract
Universal vaccination at birth and in infancy is key to the elimination of chronic hepatitis B infection. We aimed to assess hepatitis B immune-prophylaxis and perinatal transmission knowledge, in a large and ethnically diverse cohort of previously pregnant North American women, chronically infected with hepatitis B.