| [screening for hepatitis b carriers at the maternity unit of besançon teaching hospital]. | there are more than 280 carriers of the hepatitis b virus worldwide. the risk of chronic carriers, and a fatal outcome due to hepatocarcinoma, is estimated to be about 50% in asian children contaminated by materno-fetal transmission. serovaccination of the neonatal infant born to a hbv carrying mother provides protection in nearly 100% of cases. routine screening for hbv carriers at the besançon teaching hospital maternity unit led to the vaccination of 1.12% of the babies born in 1990, which co ... | 1991 | 2068490 |