174 healthy newborn babies in Lam Dong General Hospital, body weight > 2.500g without congenital abnormality, whose mother did not immunized previously with B hepatitis vaccine, were received an infection of HB vaccine of 10mg initially 24-48 hours after birth. After 3 injections of GMT anti HBS of 650.02 mIU/ml, the antibody response was 95.43% with a GMT of 1041.21 mIU/ml. The antibody response in fully immunized was 98.38%
Hepatitis B Vaccines ; Infant, Newborn ; Plasma

There are 22.94% HBsAg(+) and 41.28% anti-HBs(+) in pregnant women in Dalat. The risk of transmission of the virus is especially high (63.64%) in newborns of carrier mothers who have tested positive for both HBsAg and HBeAg. Beside 8% of newborns have been infected with HBV from horizontal transmission.
Hepatitis B ; Pregnant Women ; Infant, Newborn ; Transmission