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Prevalence and risk factors of hepatitis B infection among mothers and children with hepatitis B infected mother in upper Dolpa, Nepal

Overview of attention for article published in BMC Infectious Diseases, October 2017
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Title
Prevalence and risk factors of hepatitis B infection among mothers and children with hepatitis B infected mother in upper Dolpa, Nepal
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BMC Infectious Diseases, October 2017
DOI 10.1186/s12879-017-2763-4
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Purusotam Raj Shedain, Madhu Dixit Devkota, Megha Raj Banjara, Huang Ling, Subash Dhital

Abstract

Hepatitis B Virus (HBV) infection is a worldwide public health problem. In Nepal, the prevalence of HBV is found to be low (0.9%), although high prevalence (≥8%) of HBV infection is depicted among subgroup/population in the mountain region by various studies. This study assessed the prevalence and the risk of HBV infection among mothers, as well as among the youngest child under 5 years old living with hepatitis B positive mothers in Dolpa, the most remote mountain district of Nepal. The cross sectional study survey was conducted between June and July 2014. All mothers with their youngest child under 5 years old were invited to participate in the survey and tested for hepatitis B surface antigen (HBsAg). The HBsAg positive mothers were further tested by 5-panel HBV test card. Children living with HBsAg positive mothers were also tested for HBsAg. One hundred fifty-one mothers, comprising 37% of the total study population in the selected Village Development Committees (VDCs), were surveyed in the mobile health camps. The seroprevalence of HBsAg among mothers and their youngest child under 5 years old living with HBsAg positive mothers were 17% (95% CI, 11.01-22.99%) and 48% (95%CI, 28.42-67.58%) respectively. The majority of HBV infected mothers were indigenous (84%) followed by Dalit (4%) and other castes (12%). Among HBV infected mothers, 40% were hepatitis B envelope antigen (HBeAg) positive. The prevalence of HBsAg was higher among children living with HBeAg positive mothers as compared to HBeAg negative (60% vs 40%) and male children compared to female (60% vs 33%). Thirty-six percent of children were vaccinated with a full course of the hepatitis B vaccine. Of these vaccinated children, 56% were HBsAg sero-positive. The HBV infection rate is high among mothers and children living with HBsAg positive mothers in the indigenous population of the most remote mountain community of Nepal.

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Unknown 149 100%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Bachelor 24 16%
Student > Master 22 15%
Researcher 10 7%
Student > Ph. D. Student 10 7%
Other 8 5%
Other 25 17%
Unknown 50 34%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Medicine and Dentistry 35 23%
Nursing and Health Professions 18 12%
Immunology and Microbiology 13 9%
Social Sciences 7 5%
Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology 5 3%
Other 17 11%
Unknown 54 36%
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This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 5. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 15 October 2017.
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#6,302,275
of 23,005,189 outputs
Outputs from BMC Infectious Diseases
#1,932
of 7,721 outputs
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#102,652
of 324,392 outputs
Outputs of similar age from BMC Infectious Diseases
#36
of 127 outputs
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