Prevalence of hepatitis B, hepatitis C, and HIV infections among patients in a psychiatric hospital in Greece

Psychiatric Services

Volumn 60, Issue 9, 2009, Pages 1269-1272

  Kakisi, Ourania K ^a   Grammatikos, Anastasios A ^c   Karageorgopoulos, Drosos E ^a   Athanasoulia, Anastasia P ^a   Papadopoulou, Alexandra V ^c   Falagas, Matthew E ^a,b  

^a ALFA INSTITUTE OF BIOMEDICAL SCIENCES AIBS   (Greece)

^b TUFTS UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HEPATITIS B SURFACE ANTIGEN; HEPATITIS C ANTIBODY; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS ANTIBODY; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS ANTIGEN;

ADULT; ARTICLE; FEMALE; GREECE; HEPATITIS B; HEPATITIS B VIRUS; HEPATITIS C; HEPATITIS C VIRUS; HUMAN; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS INFECTION; IMMUNOASSAY; INFECTION RATE; INFECTION RISK; LABORATORY TEST; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MENTAL HOSPITAL; MENTAL PATIENT; NONHUMAN; PREVALENCE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SEROPREVALENCE; TERTIARY HEALTH CARE; VIRUS INFECTION;

EID: 69949100705     PISSN: 10752730     EISSN: 15579700     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1176/ps.2009.60.9.1269     Document Type: Article

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