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PLoS ONE, 2022 Hepatitis B vaccine has contributed to the reduction in hepatitis B virus infections and chronic disease globally. Screening to establish extent of vaccine induced immune response and provision of booster dose are limited in most low-and-middle income ...
Moses Ocan +6 more
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Zdorovʹe Rebenka, 2021 Background. Viral hepatitis is still one of the important health problems all over the world today. Hepatitis B is a life-threatening liver infection that can cause chronic infections.
Feyza Gökben Kahveci +2 more
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Health disparities in chronic liver disease
Hepatology, EarlyView., 2022 Abstract The syndemic of hazardous alcohol consumption, opioid use, and obesity has led to important changes in liver disease epidemiology that have exacerbated health disparities. Health disparities occur when plausibly avoidable health differences are experienced by socially disadvantaged populations.
Ani Kardashian +3 more
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Nature Communications, 2022 The hepatitis B vaccine is recognised as the most effective approach in reducing hepatitis-B-related morbidity; vaccine-escape mutations are however capable of infecting vaccinated individuals. In this work, authors aim to establish a hepatitis B vaccine
Ayaka Washizaki +19 more
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Identification of novel neutralizing determinants for protection against HCV
Hepatology, EarlyView., 2022 Identification of novel neutralizing determinants for protection against hepatitis C virus. Abstract Background and Aims HCV evasion of neutralizing antibodies (nAb) results in viral persistence and poses challenges to the development of an urgently needed vaccine.
Garazi P. Alzua +12 more
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Association of Number of Doses With Hepatitis B Vaccine Series Completion in US Adults
JAMA Network Open, 2020 Key Points Question Is completion of an adult hepatitis B virus vaccine series higher among recipients of a 2-dose vaccine compared with recipients of a 3-dose vaccine?
K. Bruxvoort +12 more
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Leveraging corona virus disease 2019 vaccination to promote hepatitis C screening
Hepatology Communications, EarlyView., 2022 Abstract Health care initiatives, such as hepatitis C virus (HCV) screening, have been greatly overshadowed by the corona virus disease 2019 (COVID‐19) pandemic. However, COVID‐19 vaccination programs also provide an opportunity to engage with a high volume of people in a health care setting.
Aaron Vanderhoff +17 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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BMJ, 2007 Hepatitis B virus is a substantial threat to global health, with 360 million people chronically infected and more than 500 000 deaths each year from fulminant hepatitis, cirrhosis, and liver cancer.1 2 After a call by the World Health Organization for the global introduction of vaccine prevention programmes by 1997,3 82% of countries in the world had ...
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Hepatitis B vaccine birth dose in India: time to reconsider
Human Vaccines & Immunotherapeutics, 2020 Viral hepatitis is increasingly being recognized as a public health problem in India with 96% of all hepatitis mortality attributed to hepatitis B and C combined.
Pragyan Paramita Parija, Mohan Kumar M
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