Serology based disease status of Pakistani population infected with Hepatitis B virus

BMC Infectious Diseases

Volumn 7, Issue , 2007, Pages

  Alam, Muhammad Masroor ^a   Zaidi, Soahil Zahoor ^a   Malik, Salman Akbar ^b   Naeem, Asif ^a   Shaukat, Shahzad ^a   Sharif, Salmaan ^a   Angez, Mehar ^a   Khan, Anis ^a   Butt, Javed Aslam ^c  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF HEALTH   (Pakistan)

^b QUAID I AZAM UNIVERSITY   (Pakistan)

^c PAKISTAN INSTITUTE OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (Pakistan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HEPATITIS B CORE ANTIGEN; HEPATITIS B SURFACE ANTIGEN; HEPATITIS B(E) ANTIGEN; HEPATITIS B ANTIBODY;

ADULT; AGE; ANTIBODY TITER; ARTICLE; BLOOD SAMPLING; DEMOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HEPATITIS B; HEPATITIS B VIRUS; HUMAN; INFECTION RATE; INFECTION RISK; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MASS SCREENING; NONHUMAN; PAKISTAN; RURAL AREA; SEROPREVALENCE; SOCIOECONOMICS; ADOLESCENT; BLOOD; CHILD; DEVELOPING COUNTRY; EPIDEMIOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; POVERTY; PREVALENCE; RANDOMIZATION; RISK FACTOR; RURAL POPULATION; SOCIAL CLASS; URBAN POPULATION;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGE FACTORS; CHILD; DEVELOPING COUNTRIES; FEMALE; HEPATITIS B; HEPATITIS B ANTIBODIES; HEPATITIS B E ANTIGENS; HEPATITIS B SURFACE ANTIGENS; HUMANS; MALE; MASS SCREENING; MIDDLE AGED; PAKISTAN; POVERTY; PREVALENCE; RANDOM ALLOCATION; RISK FACTORS; RURAL POPULATION; SEROEPIDEMIOLOGIC STUDIES; SOCIAL CLASS; URBAN POPULATION;

EID: 34447316967     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712334     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2334-7-64     Document Type: Article

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