Article
Hepatitis E in Bangladesh: Insights from a National Serosurvey
2021-06-18
Abstract excerpt
<h4>Background</h4> Hepatitis E virus, typically genotypes 1 and 2, is a major cause of avoidable morbidity and mortality in South Asia. Although case fatality risk among pregnant women can reach as high as 25%, a lack of population-level disease burden data has been cited as a primary factor in key global policy recommendations against the routine use of licensed hepatitis E vaccines, one of the only effective to...
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- Literature Corpus work
- 35408e50-2ffb-56fd-a3ed-3d03dccf6c36
- DOI
- 10.1101/2021.06.14.21258872
