Estimations of worldwide prevalence of chronic hepatitis B virus infection: A systematic review of data published between 1965 and 2013

The Lancet

Volumn 386, Issue 10003, 2015, Pages 1546-1555

  Schweitzer, Aparna ^a,b   Horn, Johannes ^a,b   Mikolajczyk, Rafael T ^a,c   Krause, Gérard ^a,c   Ott, Jördis J ^a,c  

^a HELMHOLTZ CENTRE FOR INFECTION RESEARCH   (Germany)

^b PhD Programme 'Epidemiology' Braunschweig Hannover   (Germany)

^c HANNOVER MEDICAL SCHOOL   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HEPATITIS B SURFACE ANTIGEN;

AFRICAN; ARTICLE; BIBLIOGRAPHIC DATABASE; CAB ABSTRACTS; CHRONIC HEPATITIS B; EMBASE; ENDEMIC DISEASE; HUMAN; MEDLINE; POPLINE; POPULATION SIZE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEROLOGY; SEROPREVALENCE; SYSTEMATIC REVIEW; WEB OF SCIENCE; HEALTH; HEPATITIS B, CHRONIC; PREVALENCE; RISK FACTOR; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA;

GLOBAL HEALTH; HEPATITIS B, CHRONIC; HUMANS; PREVALENCE; RISK FACTORS;

EID: 84947346338     PISSN: 01406736     EISSN: 1474547X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0140-6736(15)61412-X     Document Type: Article

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