People with multiple tattoos and/or piercings are not at increased risk for HBV or HCV in The Netherlands

PLoS ONE

Volumn 6, Issue 9, 2011, Pages

  Urbanus, Anouk T ^a,b   van den Hoek, Anneke ^a,b   Boonstra, Albert ^a   van Houdt, Robin ^a   de Bruijn, Lotte J ^a   Heijman, Titia ^a   Coutinho, Roel A ^b,c   Prins, Maria ^a,b  

^a DEPARTMENT OF INFECTIOUS DISEASES   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^c NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR PUBLIC HEALTH AND THE ENVIRONMENT   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HEPATITIS B SURFACE ANTIGEN;

ADULT; AGE; ARTICLE; BODY PIERCING; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENDEMIC DISEASE; FEMALE; HEPATITIS B; HEPATITIS C; HUMAN; IMMIGRANT; INFECTION RISK; MALE; NETHERLANDS; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; SEROPREVALENCE; TATTOO; STATISTICS; TATTOOING;

HEPATITIS B VIRUS; HEPATITIS C VIRUS;

ADULT; BODY PIERCING; FEMALE; HEPATITIS B; HEPATITIS C; HUMANS; MALE; NETHERLANDS; TATTOOING; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 80052831563     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0024736     Document Type: Article

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