Role of maternal viremia and placental infection in hepatitis B virus intrauterine transmission.
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| Abstract |
The mechanism of intrauterine hepatitis B virus infection has not been established. In this study, venous blood, cord blood, and placental tissues from 171 chronic hepatitis B virus infected pregnant women were tested for hepatitis B surface antigen, hepatitis B core antigen, and hepatitis B virus DNA. We found that residence, mode of delivery, age, and number of gestational weeks of pregnant women were not correlated with intrauterine hepatitis B virus infection, while neonates of mothers who were hepatitis B s antigen positive and hepatitis B e antigen positive (P < 0.01) or who had high hepatitis B virus DNA levels (≥10(6) copies/ml) were more likely to get an intrauterine infection (P < 0.01). The hepatitis B virus infection rate in placental cell layers gradiently decreased from the mother's side to the fetus's side of the placenta, but the odds ratio value of correlation between placental hepatitis B virus infection and intrauterine infection gradiently increased. The way of intrauterine hepatitis B virus infection may be through a layer-layer transmission pathway, although the possibility of placental leakage cannot be excluded.
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| Authors | Yong Chen, Lijuan Wang, Yunfang Xu, Xingxiang Liu, Shouzhong Li, Qiang Qian, Bin Hu, Aijun Zhou, Tianyan Chen, Yingren Zhao |
| Journal | Microbes and infection (Microbes Infect) Vol. 15 Issue 5 Pg. 409-15 (May 2013) ISSN: 1769-714X [Electronic] France |
| PMID | 23500187 (Publication Type: Journal Article, Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't) |
| Copyright | Copyright © 2013 Institut Pasteur. Published by Elsevier Masson SAS. All rights reserved. |
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