Hepatitis B virus infection among pregnant women in Taiwan: Comparison between women born in Taiwan and other southeast countries

Table 1 Numbers and HBsAg positive rates of pregnant women born in Taiwan and other six Southeast Asian countries from 1996 to 2005

	Taiwan	Other South East Asia countries
		All countries	Philippines	Cambodia	Indonesia	Thailand	Vietnam
Number of women
1996–1999	4206	50	24	3	12	5	6
2000–2002	3305	449	33	23	87	6	300
2003–2005	2816	919	14	16	72	9	808
Total	10327	1418	71	42	171	20	1114
Number of HBsAg(+) women
	1597	126	7	4	15	1	99
Percentage of women with HBsAg(+)
	15.5%	8.9%	9.9%	9.5%	8.8%	5.0%	8.9%

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