Hepatitis B virus infection among medical aste handlers in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia

BMC Research Notes

Volumn 4, Issue , 2011, Pages

  Shiferaw, Yitayal ^a,b   Abebe, Tamrat ^b   Mihret, Adane ^b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GONDAR   (Ethiopia)

^b ADDIS ABABA UNIVERSITY   (Ethiopia)

^c ARMAUER HANSEN RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Ethiopia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HEPATITIS B VIRUS;

EID: 80155143202     PISSN: None     EISSN: 17560500     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1756-0500-4-479     Document Type: Article

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