Hepatitis B virus infection and renal transplantation

Table 1 Frequency of hepatitis B surface antigen-positivity in renal transplant recipients

Authors	HBsAg rate, % (n)	Reference year	Country of origin
Hu et al[10]	20.9 (14/67)	1994	Taiwan (China)
Mathurin et al[3]1	15.3 (128/834)	1999	France
Lee et al[4]	12.9 (62/477)	2001	Taiwan (China)
Chan et al[30]	13.2 (67/509)	2002	Hong Kong (China)
Morales et al[8]2	2.2 (76/3365)	2004	Spain
Aroldi et al[20]	14.2 (77/541)	2005	Italy
Santos et al[7]3	3 (37/1224)	2009	Portugal
Tsai et al[9]	9.2 (51/554)	2009	Taiwan (China)

¹Prevalence of hepatitis B surface antigen (HBsAg) was 24.2% before 1982 and 9.1% after 1982 (P < 0.001); ²Prevalence of HBsAg was 3.0% in 1990 and 2.0% in 1998; ³Prevalence of HBsAg was 6.2% in 1994, 4.1% in 1998, 3.2% in 2002, and 2.3% in 2006.