Hepatitis A virus prevalence: Portuguese first results of low endemecity;Prevalência do vírus da hepatite A: Primeiros resultados de baixa endemicidade em Portugal

Acta Medica Portuguesa

Volumn 17, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 219-224

  Antunes, Henedina ^a   Macedo, Mónica ^a   Estrada, Alexandra ^a  

^a HOSPITAL DE BRAGA   (Portugal)

Author keywords

Adolescents; Children; Epidemiology; Hepatitis A Virus; Portugal; Prevalence

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; ANTIBODY DETECTION; ARTICLE; CHILD; CHILDHOOD DISEASE; CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEMOGRAPHY; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; ENDEMIC DISEASE; ENZYME LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; FEMALE; HEPATITIS A; HEPATITIS A VIRUS; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; MORBIDITY; NORMAL HUMAN; POPULATION RISK; PORTUGAL; PREVALENCE; VACCINATION;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; CHILD; ENDEMIC DISEASES; FEMALE; HEPATITIS A; HEPATITIS A ANTIBODIES; HUMANS; MALE; PORTUGAL; PREVALENCE; SEROEPIDEMIOLOGIC STUDIES;

EID: 9644291406     PISSN: None     EISSN: 16460758     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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