‘Tenofovir’ to prevent hepatitis B infection from mother to newborn baby

‘Tenofovir’ was recently known to have efficacy on vertical transmission of chronic hepatitis B-infected mother’s antigen to newborn babies.

Chronic hepatitis B, a main cause of cirrhosis of the liver and liver cancer in Korea, is vertically transmitted from mother to newborn baby mostly. Particularly, although newborn babies of high risk mothers who have many hepatitis B viruses and positive ...