Is hepatitis B antigen in cord blood an immunotolerogen playing a critical role in the pathogenesis of chronic hepatitis B?

• Main Authors: Hongyu Huang (Author), Mingzhe Ning (Author), Jingli Liu (Author), Jie Chen (Author), Jing Feng (Author), Yimin Dai (Author), Yali Hu (Author), Yi-Hua Zhou (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: Taylor & Francis Group, 2019-09-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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Recently, we showed that infants with or without fetal hepatitis B e antigen (HBeAg) exposure had comparable antibody response to hepatitis B vaccination and proposed that fetal HBeAg exposure appears to not induce immunotolerance to HBV. Here, we summarized the different results on the topic of fet...