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Table 2 Results of hepatitis B serology among 911 mother- child pairs in central Lao PDR

From: Serologic testing of randomly selected children after hepatitis B vaccination: a cross-sectional population-based study in Lao People’s Democratic Republic

Result of hepatitis B serology

Total (n = 911)

Undocumented vaccination history of child (n = 740)

Documented vaccination history of child(n = 171)

No doses (n = 10)

1 dose (n = 5)

2 doses (n = 9)

≥ 3 doses (n = 147)

n

(%)

n

(%)

n

(%)

n

(%)

n

(%)

n

(%)

Mother HBsa antigen positive

40

(4.4)

32

(4.3)

0

(0.0)

0

(0.0)

1

(11.1)

7

(4.8)

Children HBsa antigen positive

21

(2.3)

19

(2.6)

0

(0.0)

0

(0.0)

0

(0.0)

2

(1.4)

Children anti-HBsa positive

 Cutoff value > 10 mIU/mL

6

(0.7)

6

(0.8)

0

(0.0)

0

(0.0)

0

(0.0)

0

(0.0)

 Cutoff value > 3.45 mIU/mLb

12

(1.3)

11

(1.5)

0

(0.0)

0

(0.0)

0

(0.0)

1

(0.7)

  1. aHepatitis B surface
  2. bCutoff value was decided from our linear regression model