Serological positive markers of hepatitis B virus in femoral venous blood or umbilical cord blood should not be evidence of in-utero infection among neonates

Table 4 Loss of HBV markers during follow-up among infants in FV group and UC group

Items	Source	At birth	8–12 months	Loss of HBV markers	P-value
Items	Source	n (+)	n (+)	%	P-value
HBsAg	FV	87	10	88.5	0.863
HBsAg	UC	48	6	87.5	0.863
HBeAg	FV	136	13	90.4	0.151
HBeAg	UC	46	8	82.6	0.151
HBV-DNA	FV	18	6	66.7	1.000
HBV-DNA	UC	10	4	60.0	1.000
anti-HBe	FV	118	20	83.1	0.297
anti-HBe	UC	55	13	76.4	0.297
anti-HBc	FV	269	134	50.2	0.105
anti-HBc	UC	112	66	41.1	0.105

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