HBsAg-positive and HBsAg-negative hepatitis B virus 1 infection among mother-teenager pairs 13 years after 2 neonatal hepatitis B vaccination 3

neonatal hepatitis B vaccination 3 Qing-Qing Yao, Xiao-Lian Dong, Xue-Cai Wang, Sheng-Xiang Ge, An-Qun Hu, 4 Hai-Yan Liu, Yueping Alex Wang, Quan Yuan, Ying-Jie Zheng 5 1 Department of Epidemiology, School of Public Health, the Key Laboratory on Public 6 Health Safety, Ministry of Education, Fudan University, Shanghai 200032, China 7 2 Center for Disease Control and Prevention of Deqing County, Huzhou 313200, Zhejiang 8 Province, China. 9 3 National Institute of Diagnostics and Vaccine Development in Infectious Diseases, 10 School of Public Health, Xiamen University, Xiamen 361005, Fujian Province, China 11 4 Anqing City Hospital, Anqing 246003, Anhui Province, China 12 5 Perinatal & Reproductive Epidemiology Research Unit, School of Women’s and 13 Children’s Health, the University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia 14 15 Running title: hnHBI transmission after neonatal HBV vaccination 16 Word count for the abstract (including keywords): 227 17 Word count for the manuscript: 2849 18 Number of references: 38 19 Number of tables: 3 20 Number of figures: 2 21 Copyright © 2012, American Society for Microbiology. All Rights Reserved. Clin. Vaccine Immunol. doi:10.1128/CVI.00539-12 CVI Accepts, published online ahead of print on 19 December 2012