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0.9% - transfusion 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).