Factores asociados con la infección por el virus de la hepatitis B en comunidades indígenas de Colombia [PDF]
Biomédica: revista del Instituto Nacional de SaludIntroducción. Colombia alberga dos millones de indígenas, que viven en condiciones de pobreza y tienen deficiencias en salud, por lo cual están expuestos a contraer infecciones virales como la hepatitis B.
Jaime Martínez-Gallego +7 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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Escaping high viral load exhaustion: CD8 cells with altered tetramer binding in chronic hepatitis B virus infection [PDF]
, 2002 Deletion, anergy, and a spectrum of functional impairments can affect virus-specific CD8 cells in chronic viral infections. Here we characterize a low frequency population of CD8 cells present in chronic hepatitis B virus (HBV) infection which survive in
Antonio Bertoletti +19 more
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Does limited virucidal activity of biocides include duck hepatitis B virucidal action? [PDF]
, 2012 BACKGROUND: There is agreement that the infectivity assay with the duck hepatitis B virus (DHBV) is a suitable surrogate test to validate disinfectants for hepatitis B virucidal activity.
Wutzler, Peter +17 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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Modulation of the CD8+-T-cell response by CD4+ CD25+ regulatory T cells in patients with Hepatitis B virus infection [PDF]
, 2005 CD4+ CD25+ regulatory T cells have been shown to maintain peripheral tolerance against self and foreign antigens. In this study we analyzed the effect of circulating CD4+ CD25+ T cells on CD8+-T-cell responses of patients with chronic and resolved ...
Gotto, J +19 more
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Sanitas. Revista arbitrada de ciencias de la saludObjetivo: analizar la prevención de la transmisión vertical del virus de hepatitis B. Método: revisión sistemática en 15 articulos científicos. Resultados y Conclusión: La prevención de la transmisión vertical del virus de la hepatitis B (VHB) requiere un abordaje integral que combine la profilaxis antiviral en gestantes con alta carga viral, la ...
Hilary Justin Ortega-Dueñas +3 more
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The prevalence of occult hepatitis B virus (hbv) infection in a large multi-ethnic haemodialysis cohort. [PDF]
, 2015 Haemodialysis patients are at increased risk of exposure to blood borne viruses. To reduce transmission in the UK, all haemodialysis patients are regularly screened, and if susceptible to Hepatitis B virus (HBV) infection ...
Labbett, W +6 more
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Human immunodeficiency virus : 25 years of diagnostic and therapeutic strategies and their impact on hepatitis B and C virus [PDF]
, 2009 The human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) had spread unrecognized in the human population as sexually transmitted disease and was finally identified by its disease AIDS in 1981.
Hans Wilhelm Doerr +5 more
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Requirement of Activation for Hepatitis B Virus Infection [PDF]
, 2007 Although _in vitro_ models of human hepatitis B virus replication are established, so far none could approximate infection efficiency as expected from _in vivo_ observations.
Claudia Maenz, Michael Bruns
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