Are homosexual males a risk group for hepatitis A infection in intermediate endemicity areas?

Epidemiology and Infection

Volumn 117, Issue 1, 1996, Pages 145-148

  Ballesteros, J ^a   Dal RE R ^b   Gonzalez A ^b   Del Romero, J ^a  

^a Autonomous Community   (Spain)

^b AUTONOMOUS UNIVERSITY OF MADRID   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ANTIBODY TITER; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENDEMIC DISEASE; HEPATITIS A; HEPATITIS A VIRUS; HIGH RISK POPULATION; HOMOSEXUALITY; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PREVALENCE; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR; SEXUALLY TRANSMITTED DISEASE; SPAIN;

EID: 0029739487     PISSN: 09502688     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0950268800001242     Document Type: Article

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