Epidemiology and risk factors of incident hepatitis e virus infections in rural Bangladesh

American Journal of Epidemiology

Volumn 172, Issue 8, 2010, Pages 952-961

  Labrique, Alain B ^a   Zaman, K ^b   Hossain, Zahid ^b   Saha, Parimalendu ^b   Yunus, Mohammad ^b   Hossain, Anowar ^b   Ticehurst, John R ^c   Nelson, Kenrad E ^a  

^a JOHNS HOPKINS BLOOMBERG SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

^b INTERNATIONAL CENTRE FOR DIARRHOEAL DISEASE RESEARCH   (Bangladesh)

^c JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Asia; Bangladesh; hepatitis E; hepatitis E virus; incidence; prevalence; seroepidemiologic studies

Indexed keywords

HEPATITIS A ANTIBODY; HEPATITIS B CORE ANTIBODY; HEPATITIS C ANTIBODY; HEPATITIS E ANTIBODY;

BASELINE SURVEY; DISEASE INCIDENCE; DISEASE PREVALENCE; DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP; EPIDEMIOLOGY; HEALTH RISK; HEPATITIS; INFECTIOUS DISEASE; RISK FACTOR; RURAL AREA; SOCIOECONOMIC STATUS; SPATIOTEMPORAL ANALYSIS; VIRAL DISEASE;

ADULT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; ANTIBODY TITER; ARTICLE; BANGLADESH; COMORBIDITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEMOGRAPHY; ENDEMIC DISEASE; ENZYME IMMUNOASSAY; EPIDEMIC; FEMALE; HEPATITIS E; HEPATITIS E VIRUS; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; INFECTION RATE; INFECTION RISK; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; POPULATION BASED CASE CONTROL STUDY; PREVALENCE; RISK FACTOR; RURAL AREA; RURAL POPULATION; SEASONAL RAIN FOREST; SEASONAL VARIATION; SELF REPORT; SEROCONVERSION; SEROPREVALENCE; SOCIOECONOMICS; ADOLESCENT; AGED; CHILD; COHORT ANALYSIS; INFANT; MIDDLE AGED; PRESCHOOL CHILD; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA; VERY ELDERLY; YOUNG ADULT;

BANGLADESH;

HEPATITIS E VIRUS;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; BANGLADESH; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; COHORT STUDIES; ENDEMIC DISEASES; FEMALE; HEPATITIS E; HUMANS; IMMUNOENZYME TECHNIQUES; INFANT; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PREVALENCE; RISK FACTORS; RURAL POPULATION; SEROEPIDEMIOLOGIC STUDIES; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 77958108356     PISSN: 00029262     EISSN: 14766256     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/aje/kwq225     Document Type: Article

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