Hepatitis B virus sero-prevalence amongst pregnant women in the Gambia
Abstract Background Infection with Hepatitis B virus (HBV) is a serious public health problem worldwide, with over 360 million carriers. Sixty million of these are resident in Sub-saharan Africa. Hepatitis B infection is the cause of Hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC), which is the second commonest caus...
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
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BMC
2019-03-01
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| Series: | BMC Infectious Diseases |
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| Online Access: | http://link.springer.com/article/10.1186/s12879-019-3883-9 |