Prevention of mother-to-child transmission of hepatitis B virus: protocol for a one-arm, open-label intervention study to estimate the optimal timing of tenofovir in pregnancy

• François Nosten,
• Rose McGready,
• Verena Carrara,
• Stephan Ehrhardt,
• Nan Guo,
• Yuanxi Jia,
• Marieke Bierhoff,
• Kenrad E Nelson,
• Podjanee Jittamala,
• Wanitda Watthanaworawit,
• Clare Ling,
• Fuanglada Tongprasert,
• Michele van Vugt,
• Marcus Rijken,
• Chloe Lynne Thio

Affiliations

François Nosten

1 Shoklo Malaria Research Unit, Mahidol-Oxford Tropical Medicine Research Unit, Faculty of Tropical Medicine, Mahidol University, Mae Sot, Thailand

Rose McGready

1 Shoklo Malaria Research Unit, Mahidol-Oxford Tropical Medicine Research Unit, Faculty of Tropical Medicine, Mahidol University, Mae Sot, Thailand

Verena Carrara

16 Department of Maternal and Child Health, Shoklo Malaria Research Unit, Mae Sot, Thailand

Stephan Ehrhardt

associate professor of epidemiology

Nan Guo

Department of Anesthesiology, Perioperative and Pain Medicine, Stanford University, Stanford, California, USA

Yuanxi Jia

postdoctoral fellow

Marieke Bierhoff

Department of Maternal and Child health, Shoklo Malaria Research Unit, Mahidol-Oxford Tropical Medicine Research Unit, Faculty of Tropical Medicine, Mahidol University, Mae Sot, Thailand

Kenrad E Nelson

Department of Epidemiology, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland, USA

Podjanee Jittamala

Department of Maternal and Child health, Mahidol-Oxford Tropical Medicine Research Unit, Faculty of Tropical Medicine, Mahidol University, Bangkok, Thailand

Wanitda Watthanaworawit

Department of Microbiology, Shoklo Malaria Research Unit, Mahidol-Oxford Tropical Medicine Research Unit, Faculty of Tropical Medicine, Mahidol University, Mae Sot, Thailand

Clare Ling

Centre for Tropical Medicine and Global Health, Oxford University, Oxford, Oxfordshire, UK

Fuanglada Tongprasert

Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Chiang Mai University, Suthep, Chiang Mai, Thailand

Michele van Vugt

Amsterdam UMC, Internal Medicine, Department of Infectious Diseases, Centre of Tropical Medicine and Travel Medicine, location AMC, University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam, The Netherlands

Marcus Rijken

Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Utrecht University, Utrecht, The Netherlands

Chloe Lynne Thio

Department of Medicine, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland, USA