title: [Transmission of hepatitis B from an adopted child to an adult].
abstract: A case of acute hepatitis B infection in a 43 year-old male is presented. Seven months before admission the family had adopted a two year-old boy from India, and the child was later found to be seropositive for HBsAg. The patient had no other risk factors of hepatitis B infection and transmission of hepatitis B virus from the adopted child is suspected. It is recommended that children who are adopted from countries with high hepatitis B virus prevalence should be examined for HBsAg, and adoptive family members be vaccinated if the child is found to be HBsAg seropositive.
authors.affiliation: Aalborg Sygehus Syd, medicinsk gastroenterologisk afdeling.
authors.forename: O K
authors.initials: OK
authors.lastname: Bonderup
authors.forename: U
authors.initials: U
authors.lastname: Tage-Jensen
mesh_terms: D000300:Adoption; D000328:Adult; D002675:Child, Preschool; D003718:Denmark; D006509:Hepatitis B / Q000635:transmission*; D006801:Humans; D007194:India / Q000208:ethnology; D008297:Male
vernacular_title: Hepatitis B-smitte fra et adoptivbarn til en voksen.