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of blood and its products 6.6% - close household contacts 10.8% - iatrogenic (except transfusion of blood and its products) 32.4% - sexual contacts 33.6% - IV drug addiction 15.7% - unknown The data are from Dr. Marina Kvitashvili's doctoral thesis (dissertation) and is based on information collected from 300 patients with newly diagnosed Hepatitis B infection during 1997-99 (Georgian Research Center of AIDS and Clinical Immunology, Center for Infectious Pathology). |