Hepatitis a among men who have sex with men in Barcelona, 1989-2010: Insufficient control and need for new approaches

BMC Infectious Diseases

Volumn 12, Issue , 2012, Pages

  Tortajada, Cecilia ^a,b   de Olalla, Patricia G ^a,b   Diez, Elia ^a   Pinto, Rosa M ^c   Bosch, Albert ^c   Perez, Unai ^c   Sanz, Milagros ^a   Caylà, Joan A ^a,b  

^a AGÈNCIA DE SALUT PÚBLICA DE BARCELONA   (Spain)

^b CIBER EPIDEMIOLOGÍA Y SALUD PÚBLICA CIBERESP   (Spain)

^c UNIVERSITY OF BARCELONA   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PROTEIN VP1;

ADULT; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIUM ISOLATION; EPIDEMIC; FEMALE; GENETIC ANALYSIS; GENOTYPE; HEPATITIS A; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MALE HOMOSEXUAL; NONHUMAN; SEX RATIO; SPAIN; HOMOSEXUALITY; INCIDENCE; MIDDLE AGED;

ADULT; DISEASE OUTBREAKS; FEMALE; HEPATITIS A; HOMOSEXUALITY, MALE; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; SPAIN;

EID: 84856002377     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712334     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2334-12-11     Document Type: Article

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