Maternal‐infant transmission of hepatitis B in Egypt

Journal of Medical Virology

Volumn 24, Issue 2, 1988, Pages 191-197

  Hyams, Kenneth C ^a   Osman, Nadia Mohamed ^b   Khaled, Eman Mohamed ^b   Abd El‐Wahab Koraa, Afaf ^b   Imam, Imam Zagloul ^a   El‐Ghorab, Nemat M ^a   Dunn, Michael A ^a   Woody, James N ^a  

^a US Naval Medical Research Unit No 3   (United States)

^b AL AZHAR UNIVERSITY   (Egypt)

Author keywords

chronic antigenemia; hepatitis B vaccine; hepatitis transmission; horizontal transmission; viral hepatitis

Indexed keywords

ANTIGEN BLOOD LEVEL; EGYPT; FEMALE; HEPATITIS B; HORIZONTAL TRANSMISSION; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; NEWBORN; NONHUMAN; PREGNANCY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; VACCINATION; VIRUS HEPATITIS;

ADULT; EGYPT; EPIDEMIOLOGIC METHODS; FEMALE; HEPATITIS B; HEPATITIS B E ANTIGENS; HEPATITIS B SURFACE ANTIGENS; HUMAN; INFANT, NEWBORN; PREGNANCY; SUPPORT, U.S. GOV'T, NON-P.H.S.; VIRAL HEPATITIS VACCINES;

EID: 0023833505     PISSN: 01466615     EISSN: 10969071     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/jmv.1890240208     Document Type: Article

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