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SUBMITTER: Faleye TO
PROVIDER: S-EPMC4320141 | biostudies-literature | 2015
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Faleye Temitope Oluwasegun Cephas TO Adewumi Moses Olubusuyi MO Ifeorah Ijeoma Maryjoy IM Omoruyi Ewean Chukwuma EC Bakarey Solomon Adeleye SA Akere Adegboyega A Awokunle Funmilola F Ajibola Hannah Opeyemi HO Makanjuola Deborah Oluwaseyi DO Adeniji Johnson Adekunle JA
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Perinatal transmission of hepatitis B virus (HBV) and its associated immune escape mutants (IEMs), is the major vehicle through which a population of chronically infected people who serve as infectious HBV reservoirs is maintained in communities. Therefore, to assess the risk of perinatal transmission, 272 pregnant women attending ante-natal clinics in Ibadan metropolis, southwestern, Nigeria, were screened for HBsAg using ELISA technique. Samples positive for HBsAg were subjected to HBV DNA det ...[more]