Comparison of hepatitis B viral loads and viral antigen levels in child-bearing age women with and without pregnancy

Abstract Background Pregnancy is a unique physiological condition with the cellular immune functions compromised at some extents to allow the mature of growing fetus. Whether pregnancy may influence the replication of hepatitis B virus (HBV) is less studied. The present study aimed to investigate th...

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Main Authors: Chenyu Xu, Jingli Liu, Lanhua Liu, Yongchun Bi, Biyun Xu, Jie Chen, Biao Xu, Tingmei Chen, Yali Hu, Yi-Hua Zhou
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: BMC 2018-07-01
Series:BMC Pregnancy and Childbirth
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Online Access:http://link.springer.com/article/10.1186/s12884-018-1932-9