High prevalence of occult hepatitis B infection (OBI) among healthy children and their parents in Alborz province, Iran; Vertical OBI, myth or truth?
Azam GhaziasadiZahra FakhariBahman AghcheliVahdat PoortahmasebiMohammad FarahmandMehdi NorouziLeila GhalichiAlireza SoleimaniMojtaba Hedayat YaghoobiMehrdad RavanshadSeyed Mohammad JazayeriPublished in: Liver international : official journal of the International Association for the Study of the Liver (2019)
A proportion of OBI-positive vaccinated children could be existed in different populations. This finding could be arisen from vertical HBV transmission or vertical OBI possibly from their parents.