Hepatitis B virus and hepatitis C virus infections in United States-bound refugees from Asia and Africa

American Journal of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene

Volumn 90, Issue 6, 2014, Pages 1014-1020

  Mixson Hayden, Tonya ^a   Lee, Deborah ^a   Ganova Raeva, Lilia ^a   Drobeniuc, Jan ^a   Stauffer, William M ^b   Teshale, Eyasu ^a   Kamili, Saleem ^a  

^a CENTERS FOR DISEASE CONTROL AND PREVENTION   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

VIRUS DNA;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AFRICA; AGED; ARTICLE; ASIA; BHUTAN; BLOOD SAMPLING; DNA SEQUENCE; FEMALE; GENOTYPE; HEPATITIS B; HEPATITIS B VIRUS; HEPATITIS C; HEPATITIS C VIRUS; HUMAN; IRAQ; LAOS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MYANMAR; PHYLOGENETIC TREE; PREVALENCE; REFUGEE; SOMALIA; THAILAND; UNITED STATES; VERY ELDERLY; VIRUS LOAD;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AFRICA; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ASIA; DNA, VIRAL; FEMALE; GENOTYPE; HEPACIVIRUS; HEPATITIS B; HEPATITIS B SURFACE ANTIGENS; HEPATITIS B VIRUS; HEPATITIS C; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PHYLOGENY; PREVALENCE; REFUGEES; RNA, VIRAL; UNITED STATES; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84902287966     PISSN: 00029637     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4269/ajtmh.14-0068     Document Type: Article

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