Active surveillance for acute viral hepatitis in rural villages in the Nile Delta

Clinical Infectious Diseases

Volumn 42, Issue 5, 2006, Pages 628-633

  Meky, Fatma A ^a,b   Stoszek, Sonia K ^e   Abdel Hamid, Mohamed ^b,e   Selim, Sahar ^c   Abdel Wahab, Ayman ^c   Mikhail, Nabiel ^b   El Kafrawy, Sherif ^b,c   El Daly, Mai ^b,c   Abdel Aziz, Fatma ^d   Sharaf, Soraya ^c   Mohamed, Mostafa K ^a   Engle, Ronald E ^f   Emerson, Suzanne U ^f   Purcell, Robert H ^f   Fix, Alan D ^e   Strickland, G Thomas ^e  

^a AIN SHAMS UNIVERSITY   (Egypt)

^b NATIONAL HEPATOLOGY AND TROPICAL MEDICINE RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Egypt)

^c National Liver Institute   (Egypt)

^d Center for Field and Applied Research   (Egypt)

^e UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^f NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF ALLERGY AND INFECTIOUS DISEASES   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALANINE AMINOTRANSFERASE; HEPATITIS A ANTIBODY; HEPATITIS B ANTIBODY; HEPATITIS B SURFACE ANTIGEN; HEPATITIS C ANTIBODY; IMMUNOGLOBULIN M ANTIBODY;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ALANINE AMINOTRANSFERASE BLOOD LEVEL; ANTIBODY BLOOD LEVEL; ARTICLE; CHILD; CHRONIC HEPATITIS; EGYPT; FEMALE; HEPATITIS A; HEPATITIS B; HEPATITIS C; HEPATITIS E VIRUS; HUMAN; LABORATORY DIAGNOSIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RURAL AREA; SEROCONVERSION; VIRUS DETECTION; VIRUS HEPATITIS;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; EGYPT; FEMALE; HEPATITIS A; HEPATITIS A ANTIBODIES; HEPATITIS C; HEPATITIS C ANTIBODIES; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; POPULATION SURVEILLANCE; RURAL POPULATION;

EID: 33144471308     PISSN: 10584838     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/500133     Document Type: Article

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