Hepatitis B in rugby: is it time to revisit policy?

We report a professional rugby player, incidentally found to have chronic HBV infection. Born before 1995, his HBV acquisition was likely in childhood before age 5, in keeping with HBV epidemiology in sub-Saharan Africa. He used no alcohol, illicit substances or performance enhancing drugs. Table 1 lists his workup identifying the immune clearance/active phase of chronic...

Source: British Journal of Sports Medicine - May 16, 2016 Category: Sports Medicine Authors: Sonderup, M. W., Suter, J., Spearman, C. W. Tags: Editorial Source Type: research