Seroprevalence of hepatitis B among the general population in Shandong Province, Eastern China, an update 30 years after the implementation of the neonatal vaccination program
Bingyu Yan, Xiaomeng Zhang, Jingjing Lv, Yi Feng, Xin Meng, Xiaojuan Lin, Yan Zhang, Suting Wang, Feng Ji, Meng Chen, Xinyu Yuan, Zexin Tao, Li Zhang · 2024
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Bingyu Yan and twelve co-authors measured hepatitis B across Shandong Province in China, thirty years after newborn vaccination began, in a 2024 paper. Leftover blood samples from a 2023 survey of five thousand residents, aged one and up, were tested for virus markers. The survey spanned ten counties and used a sensitive standard assay.
About two in a hundred people carried the surface marker of infection, down sharply from 1992 levels. Among those under thirty, the rate fell below one in three hundred, and among young children below one in a thousand. Rates peaked in people in their forties, a legacy of the pre-vaccine era. Nearly half the population carried protective antibodies. The authors credit the newborn program for the young generation's gains. They urge wider testing, more treatment, and catch-up vaccination for adults to finish the job.
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| CREATOR | Bingyu Yan, Xiaomeng Zhang, Jingjing Lv, Yi Feng, Xin Meng, Xiaojuan Lin, Yan Zhang, Suting Wang, Feng Ji, Meng Chen, Xinyu Yuan, Zexin Tao, Li Zhang |
|---|---|
| YEAR | 2024 |
| COLLECTION | PAPERS |
| FORMAT | TXT |
| FILE SIZE | 30 KB |
| VERSION | 1.0 |
| LICENSE | CC BY 4.0 |
| RIGHTS | CC BY |
| SOURCE | Europe PMC |