Frequency of pregnant women with HBsAg in a Brazilian community Freqüência de gestantes portadoras do HBsAg em uma comunidade brasileira
The work reported here points up the real benefits provided by neonatal immunoprophylaxis of newborns delivered by mothers who are seropositive for the hepatitis B virus surface antigen HBsAg and underscores the need to properly identify such mothers in Brazil so that immunoprophylaxis can be undert...
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Format: | Article |
Language: | English |
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Pan American Health Organization
1997-01-01
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Series: | Revista Panamericana de Salud Pública |
Online Access: | http://www.scielosp.org/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S1020-49891997000100006 |