The prevalence of HBV infection in the cohort of IDPs of war against terrorism in Malakand Division of Northern Pakistan

BMC Infectious Diseases

Volumn 11, Issue , 2011, Pages

  Khan, Fawad ^a,b   Akbar, Haji ^a,b,c,d   Idrees, Muhammad ^b   Khan, Hayat ^a,b   Shahzad, Khuram ^c,d   Kayani, Mahmood A ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MALAKAND   (Pakistan)

^b National Centre of Excellence in Molecular Biology   (Pakistan)

^c COMSATS Institute of Information Technology Islamabad Campus ^*  (Pakistan)

^d UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA CHAMPAIGN   (United States)

Author keywords

Gender disparity; HBV; Malakand Division; Prevalence; Risk factors

Indexed keywords

HEPATITIS B ANTIBODY; HEPATITIS B SURFACE ANTIGEN; HEPATITIS B(E) ANTIBODY; HEPATITIS B(E) ANTIGEN; VIRUS DNA; HEPATITIS B ANTIGEN;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; AWARENESS; BLOOD SAMPLING; COHORT ANALYSIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENZYME LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; FEMALE; HEALTH BEHAVIOR; HEPATITIS B; HIGH RISK PATIENT; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PAKISTAN; PREVALENCE; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK FACTOR; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR; SOCIAL STATUS; TERRORISM; AGE; BLOOD; CHILD; EPIDEMIOLOGY; HEPATITIS B VIRUS; HYGIENE; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; MIDDLE AGED; REFUGEE; SOCIOECONOMICS; STATISTICS;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGE FACTORS; CHILD; COHORT STUDIES; FEMALE; HEPATITIS B; HEPATITIS B ANTIBODIES; HEPATITIS B ANTIGENS; HEPATITIS B VIRUS; HUMANS; HYGIENE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PAKISTAN; PREVALENCE; REFUGEES; RISK FACTORS; SEROEPIDEMIOLOGIC STUDIES; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS; TERRORISM;

EID: 79959262430     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712334     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2334-11-176     Document Type: Article

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