Preventive Medicine Reports, 2019 Hepatitis A and B vaccine coverage is suboptimal in US adults, even among those at increased risk for infection, morbidity, or mortality. To understand where medical education and resources might enhance vaccine coverage, it is important to first ...
P.K. Ghaswalla +6 more
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Sero-prevalence and risk factors for hepatitis B virus infection among health care workers in a tertiary hospital in Uganda. [PDF]
, 2010 BACKGROUND: Hepatitis B virus (HBV) infection is a global public health challenge. Prevalence of current hepatitis B virus infection in the general population in Uganda is about 10%.
Bwogi, Josephine +14 more
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Modelling alternative strategies for delivering hepatitis B vaccine in prisons : the impact on the vaccination coverage of the injecting drug user population [PDF]
, 2008 Since 2001 hepatitis B vaccination has been offered to prisoners on reception into prisons in England and Wales. However, short campaigns of vaccinating the entire population of individual prisons have achieved high vaccination coverage for limited ...
Sutton, AJ +8 more
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Viral Hepatitis A, B and C in a Group of Transgender Women in Central Brazil
Tropical Medicine and Infectious Disease, 2022 Transgender women (TGW) have limited access to affordable viral hepatitis testing, hepatitis B vaccination, and treatment. We aimed to estimate the prevalence of viral hepatitis A, B, and C, as well as to compare the adherence and immunogenicity of two ...
Lucila Pessuti Ferri +12 more
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Hepatitis B vaccination in the Columbian Amazon : effectiveness and factors influencing vaccine coverage [PDF]
A vaccination coverage survey was carried out in the Colombian Amazon, a former high endemic area for hepatitis B, involving 3573 children less than II years old. It was carried out in Leticia, Puerto Narifio, and Araracuara, both urban and rural areas.
De La Hoz, Fernando
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Physicians Infrequently Adhere to Hepatitis Vaccination Guidelines for Chronic Liver Disease [PDF]
, 2013 Background and Goals:Hepatitis A (HAV) and hepatitis B (HBV) vaccination in patients with chronic liver disease is an accepted standard of care. We determined HAV and HBV vaccination rates in a tertiary care referral hepatology clinic and the impact of ...
Dhiraj Yadav +15 more
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Hepatitis B virus infection in the Republic of Yemen [PDF]
A community-based cross-sectional household seroepdemiological survey was conducted in the Republic of Yemen to estimate the prevalence of HBV infection as well as hepatitis B vaccine coverage and effectiveness amongst children vaccinated in the ...
Qirbi, Naseeb
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Safety and efficacy of the RTS,S/AS01E candidate malaria vaccine given with expanded-programme-on-immunisation vaccines: 19 month follow-up of a randomised, open-label, phase 2 trial. [PDF]
, 2011 BACKGROUND\ud \ud The RTS,S/AS01(E) candidate malaria vaccine is being developed for immunisation of infants in Africa through the expanded programme on immunisation (EPI).
Abdulla, Salim +125 more
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, 1986 Krämer A, Sommer D, Hahn EG, Riecken E-O. German experimental hepatitis B vaccine: influence of variation of dosage schedule, sex and age differences on immunogenicity in health care workers. Klinische Wochenschrift.
Sommer, D. +3 more
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Hepatitis A, B, and A/B vaccination series completion among US adults: A claims-based analysis
Human Vaccines & Immunotherapeutics, 2018 Hepatitis A and B disease burden persists in the US. We assessed hepatitis A and hepatitis B vaccination series completion rates among 350,240 commercial/Medicare and 12,599 Medicaid enrollees aged ≥19 years.
Parinaz K. Ghaswalla +5 more
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