“…Proven pathways of the infection with hepatitis on the infant are oral-fecal postpartum, hematogenous infection if the infant is injured during birth, the maternal-fetal microtransfusion in the presence of the placental lesion, and colostrum. A transplacental transmission of hepatitis virus or HB-Ag must be assumed [5,11,14,48,66]. If the maternal disease occurs during the first trimester the fetal case rate is very low [66].…”