Maternal breast feeding safety of hepatitis B virus carrying parturient women with hepatitis B surface antigen and hepatitis B e antigen double positive

Objective To explore hepatitis B virus(HBV)infection rate of breast feeding to newborn babies of HBV carrying parturient women with hepatitis B surface antigen(HBsAg)and hepatitis B e antigen(HBeAg)double positive.Methods A prospective cohort study was conducted to include HBsAg and HBeAg double-positive HBV carrying parturient women and their babies born from February 2016 to May 2018 at the Women’s Hospital,Zhejiang University School of Medicine,and 323 parturient women and 323 babies were enrolled.