Mother-to-child transmission of hepatitis B in sub-Saharan Africa

The Lancet Infectious Diseases

Volumn 16, Issue 1, 2016, Pages 19-20

  Shimakawa, Yusuke ^a,b   Toure Kane, Coumba ^c   Mendy, Maimuna ^d   Thursz, Mark ^e   Lemoine, Maud ^a,e  

^a MEDICAL RESEARCH COUNCIL LABORATORIES   (Gambia)

^b INSTITUT PASTEUR   (France)

^c Centre Hospitalier Universitaire Aristide Le Dantec de Dakar   (Senegal)

^d INTERNATIONAL AGENCY FOR RESEARCH ON CANCER   (France)

^e IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HEPATITIS B VACCINE; HEPATITIS B(E) ANTIGEN;

AFRICA SOUTH OF THE SAHARA; ANTIVIRAL THERAPY; COST EFFECTIVENESS ANALYSIS; DNA DETERMINATION; GAMBIA; HEPATITIS B; HEPATITIS B VIRUS; HETEROZYGOTE; HUMAN; IMMUNOPROPHYLAXIS; LETTER; LIVER FIBROSIS; PREGNANT WOMAN; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; VERTICAL TRANSMISSION; VIRUS REPLICATION; FEMALE; IMMUNOLOGY; PREGNANCY; PREVENTION AND CONTROL;

FEMALE; HEPATITIS B; HEPATITIS B VACCINES; HUMANS; INFECTIOUS DISEASE TRANSMISSION, VERTICAL; PREGNANCY;

EID: 84974824237     PISSN: 14733099     EISSN: 14744457     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1473-3099(15)00469-7     Document Type: Letter

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