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Hepatitis B: changing epidemiology and interventions.
Archives of disease in childhood - 1 Jul 2017
Nannini Pilar, Sokal Etienne M
Abstract excerpt
Hepatitis B virus infection is still a major public health problem worldwide, since more than 350 million people have chronic, lifelong infection and nearly 1 million deaths occur each year owing to complications. Most infections are acquired at birth or during early childhood. Nowadays, low- and middle-income countries bear the majority of the burden of hepatitis B-related liver cancer deaths despite the...
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