Integrated HIV surveillance finds recent adult hepatitis B virus (HBV) transmission and intermediate HBV prevalence among military in uncharacterized Caribbean country.

Integrated HIV surveillance finds recent adult hepatitis B virus (HBV) transmission and intermediate HBV prevalence among military in uncharacterized Caribbean country.

BACKGROUND:Guyana expanded its HIV response in 2005 but the epidemiology of hepatitis B virus (HBV) and hepatitis C virus (HCV) infections has not been characterized. METHODS:The 2011 Seroprevalence and Behavioral Epidemiology Risk Survey for HIV and STIs collected biologic specimens with demographi...

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Main Authors: Siobhan M O'Connor, Tonya Mixson-Hayden, Lilia Ganova-Raeva, Djeneba Audrey Djibo, Matthew Brown, Guo-Liang Xia, Saleem Kamili, Marni Jacobs, Maxia Dong, Anne G Thomas, Marc Bulterys, Braden Hale
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2019-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0222835

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https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0222835

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