Table 1.

Distribution of amino acid (aa) changes in B- and T-cell epitopes of the Core protein in the infants compared to the HBV genomes of the mother.

Child No	CTL-epitopes [aa]		CD4+ epitopes [aa]		B cell-epitopes [aa]
	18–27	88–96	1–20	50–69	74–89	107–118
1	-	-	-	-	-	-
2	-	-	14	-	-	-
3	-	92	-	-	-	-
4	-	-	-	65	-	-
5	21	92	5,14	60	80,85	116