Transmission of Hepatitis B and D Viruses in an African Rural Community

Transmission of Hepatitis B and D Viruses in an African Rural Community

ABSTRACT According to the World Health Organization (WHO), an estimated 257 million people worldwide are chronically infected with hepatitis B virus (HBV), with approximately 15 million of them being coinfected with hepatitis D virus (HDV). To investigate the prevalence and transmission of HBV and H...

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Main Authors: Carlos Augusto Pinho-Nascimento, Martin W. Bratschi, Rene Höfer, Caroline Cordeiro Soares, Louisa Warryn, Jūlija Pečerska, Jacques C. Minyem, Izabel C. N. P. Paixão, Marcia Terezinha Baroni de Moraes, Alphonse Um Boock, Christian Niel, Gerd Pluschke, Katharina Röltgen
Format: article
Language:EN
Published: American Society for Microbiology 2018
Subjects:
hepatitis B virus
molecular epidemiology
transmission
Microbiology
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Online Access:https://doaj.org/article/696b90e5ac4c4393a4ded67b9472810f
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