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Hepatitis B Virus

Researchers Find New Clues about Maternal Transmission

Published in Women's Health Weekly, February 8th, 1995

Whether or not a pregnant woman will pass hepatitis B to her child depends on the level of virus in the mother, according to researchers at the University of Texas (UT) Houston School of Public Health.

These findings may help researchers understand mother-to-infant transmission of other viruses, such as HIV.

The UT Houston School of Public Health researchers, Drs. R. Palmer Beasley and Lu-Yu Hwang, participated in the first-of-its-kind large-scale study along with researchers from the Albert Einstein Medical College in New York and the American Medical Research Center in Taiwan. The results are published in the January 1995 issue of the Journal of...

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