Hepatitis-B virus infection in India: Findings from a nationally representative serosurvey, 2017-18

Hepatitis-B virus infection in India: Findings from a nationally representative serosurvey, 2017-18

Introduction: India introduced a hepatitis-B (HB) vaccine in the Universal Immunization Program in 2002–2003 on a pilot basis, expanded to ten states in 2007–2008 (phase-1), and the entire country in 2011–2012 (phase-2). We tested sera from a nationally representative serosurvey conducted duing 2017...

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Main Authors: Manoj V. Murhekar, Muthusamy Santhosh Kumar, P. Kamaraj, Siraj Ahmed Khan, Ramesh Reddy Allam, Pradip Barde, Bhagirathi Dwibedi, Suman Kanungo, Uday Mohan, Suman Sundar Mohanty, Subarna Roy, Vivek Sagar, Deepali Savargaonkar, Babasaheb V. Tandale, Roshan Kamal Topno, C.P. Girish Kumar, R. Sabarinathan, Sailaja Bitragunta, Gagandeep Singh Grover, P.V.M. Lakshmi, Chandra Mauli Mishra, Provash Sadhukhan, Prakash Kumar Sahoo, S.K. Singh, Chander Prakash Yadav, Rajesh Kumar, Shanta Dutta, G.S. Toteja, Nivedita Gupta, Sanjay M. Mehendale, T. Karunakaran, Annamma Jose, D. Augustine, C. Govindhasamy, T. Daniel Rajasekar, A. Jeyakumar, A. Suresh, P. Ashok Kumar, R. Sivakumar, J.W. Banerjee John
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Elsevier 2020-11-01
Series:International Journal of Infectious Diseases
Subjects:
Hepatitis-B
Prevalence
Vaccine
India
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