Hepatitis delta virus infection in mongolia: Analyses of geographic distribution, risk factors, and disease severity

American Journal of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene

Volumn 75, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 365-369

  Davaalkham, Dambadarjaa ^a   Ojima, Toshiyuki ^a   Uehara, Ritei ^a   Watanabe, Makoto ^a   Izumi, Oki ^a   Nymadawa, Pagvajav ^b   Takahashi, Masaharu ^a   Okamoto, Hiroaki ^a   Nakamura, Yosikazu ^a  

^a JICHI MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b National Center for Communicable Diseases   (Mongolia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HEPATITIS B SURFACE ANTIGEN; VIRUS ANTIBODY; VIRUS RNA;

ANTIBODY DETECTION; ARTICLE; BLOOD SAMPLING; CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DELTA AGENT HEPATITIS; DISEASE SEVERITY; FEMALE; GEOGRAPHY; HEALTH SERVICE; HEALTH SURVEY; HEPATITIS DELTA VIRUS; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MONGOLIA; MULTIVARIATE LOGISTIC REGRESSION ANALYSIS; PREVALENCE; RISK FACTOR; SCHOOL CHILD; BLOOD; CHILD; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; EPIDEMIOLOGY; IMMUNOLOGY; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; STATISTICAL MODEL;

HEPATITIS B VIRUS; HEPATITIS DELTA VIRUS;

ANTIBODIES, VIRAL; CHILD; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; FEMALE; GEOGRAPHY; HEPATITIS B SURFACE ANTIGENS; HEPATITIS D; HEPATITIS DELTA VIRUS; HUMANS; LOGISTIC MODELS; MALE; MONGOLIA; RISK FACTORS; RNA, VIRAL; SEROEPIDEMIOLOGIC STUDIES;

EID: 33748755655     PISSN: 00029637     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4269/ajtmh.2006.75.365     Document Type: Article

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