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Rupali S. Shinde, Aisha M. Parande, B.G. Mantur, Mahantesh V. Parande

Volume :

4

Issue :

3

Abstract :

Introduction: Hepatitis B virus (HBV) infection is a global public health problem. HBV infected pregnant mothers act as a constant source of infection to the babies. This leads to increased chronic cases of HBV infection despite effective vaccine & antiviral therapy. Thus it becomes very essential to detect such unsuspected otherwise healthy HBV carriers & cases. Patients and Method: A retrospective study was aimed to study seroprevalence rate of HBV in all pregnant mothers attending the obstetric services from May 2015 to May 2016. All HBsAg positive cases & their babies’ case records were reviewed to study the clinical, demographic data, HBV vaccination & HBV status of the baby. Results: Prevalence rate is 1.68% in 3800 screened cases. Most cases were from the age group 20-24 years. Primigravids & multigravids were equally infected. Out of 14 delivered cases in the hospital, 13 had live babies & only 1 had IUD. 11 delivered by normal labour whereas only 3 delivered by caesarean section. 3 babies had low birth weight (