Table 2.

MTCT of HBV in children of HBsAg-positive mothers.

	HBeAg (-) mothers		HBeAg (+) mothers
Province and location∗	Children No	Infection, No (%)	Children No	Infection, No (%)	References
Adherence to recommended immunoprophylaxis
Guangdong, South China	887	0	473	21 (4.44)	Yin et al[22]
Liaoning, Northeast China	82	0	167	12 (7.2)	Ding et al[23]
Hubei and Xinjiang, Central and Northwest China	647	0	367	29 (7.9)	Zhang et al[24]
Jiangsu, East China	126	0	49	4 (8.2)	Evans et al[25]
Hubei, Central China	996	0	223	11 (4.9)	Peng et al[26]
Jiangsu, East China	2741	0	1248	73 (5.8)	Xu et al[14]
Suboptimal adherence to recommended immunoprophylaxis
Jiangsu, East China	208	0	90	11 (12.1)	Hu et al[9]
Henan, Central China	316	8 (2.5)	122	15 (12.3)	Yonghao et al[55]
Shaanxi, Northwest China	310	4 (1.3)	189	22 (11.6)	Chen et al[56]

^∗This just indicates where the studies were performed, but not to indicate the representative of a province's results, because most of the studies were performed in single hospitals. HBsAg: Hepatitis B surface antigen; HBV: Hepatitis B virus; MTCT: Mother-to-child transmission.