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Hepatitis B infection - help

Hi,
Thank you for the nice forum .. Actually this incident happened yesterday and i am goning crazy ... A patient known case of hepatitis b on tenofovir with Hep B DNA viral liad level of 110 Iu/ml hugged me suddenly and kissed me on my head, hair and face .. I immediatley went and wash my hai and face on the places she kissed with water with my "bare hand" not puting on gloves .. then i washed my hands wish soap and water and then sanitized with alcohol ... however, later i noticed that i have small open wound in my hand .. I recived hep b vaccine before and my hep B antibody titre was 800 or so .. my questions are:
1) is there a chance that i can get the HBV transmitted to me by kissing from a known hepatitis B person?
2) is there a chance that during washing my hair and face with my bare hands with small open wound .. there is a chance that i can get the hbv through the open wound in my body while touching the infcted saliva and washing it with water ???

Shall i go for testing?

Please reply as quick as possible

Thank you
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No risk of infection from what you described, but go and get the HBV vaccine ASAP to ease you mind with any future encounters. HBV vaccine is 3 doses
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you are safe.
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Thank you for your reply
More of a chance of being struck by lightening twice then catching hep b the way you have described...
Thank you very much
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No need to worry, you are safe for sure. The probability that you get affected by hbv via this action is much less that the probability that you win a lottery of bililions dollars. Don’t panic.
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Thank you very much dor your reply ... The only thing I am scared of is that her saliva was mixed with blood or no .. i did not see any gross blood but i am not sure but her platelet was dropping it became 39000 and she had hematomas over her hands everytime they took blood from her  bcz .. she has advanced liver cirrohosis and wants to go for liver transplant
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By the way the wound was there in my hand previously but obviously i did not notice it when i washed the place with my hands ..  
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