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RESEARCH ARTICLE Open Access Should chronic hepatitis B mothers breastfeed? a meta analysis Yingjie Zheng1,2*, Yihan Lu1,2, Qi Ye3, Yugang Xia1,2, Yueqin Zhou3, Qingqing Yao1,2 and Shan Wei1,2 Abstract Background: Hepatitis B virus (HBV) exists in the breast milk of chronic hepatitis B (CHB) mothers. The authors use a meta-analytic technique to quantify the evidence of an association between breastfeeding and risk of CHB infection among the infants vaccinated against HBV. Methods: Literature search is performed up to 2010 on the relationship between infantile CHB infection within one-year foll