The next step in controlling HBV in China: Focus on preventing perinatal transmission of the virus

BMJ (Online)

Volumn 347, Issue 7918, 2013, Pages

  Xu, Yuanyong ^a   Liu, Huihui ^b   Wang, Yong ^a   Hao, Rongzhang ^a   Li, Zhenjun ^b   Song, Hongbin ^a  

^a BEIJING INSTITUTE OF MICROBIOLOGY AND EPIDEMIOLOGY   (China)

^b CHINESE CENTER FOR DISEASE CONTROL AND PREVENTION   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HEPATITIS B ANTIBODY; HEPATITIS B SURFACE ANTIGEN; HEPATITIS B VACCINE; LAMIVUDINE;

CHINA; DRUG EFFICACY; EDITORIAL; HEPATITIS B; HUMAN; IMMUNIZATION; IMMUNOPROPHYLAXIS; INCIDENCE; INFECTION CONTROL; INFECTION PREVENTION; INFECTION RATE; PERINATAL INFECTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; VACCINATION; VERTICAL TRANSMISSION; VIRUS TRANSMISSION;

CHILD; CHINA; COMMUNICABLE DISEASE CONTROL; HEPATITIS B; HEPATITIS B VACCINES; HEPATITIS B VIRUS; HUMANS; INFANT;

EID: 84880896051     PISSN: None     EISSN: 17561833     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/bmj.f4503     Document Type: Editorial

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