Community-based cross-sectional seroprevalence study of hepatitis A in Bangladesh
Open Access
- 1 January 2009
- journal article
- Published by Baishideng Publishing Group Inc. in World Journal of Gastroenterology
- Vol. 15 (39), 4932-4937
- https://doi.org/10.3748/wjg.15.4932
Abstract
AIM: To elucidate the age-distribution of anti-hepatitis A virus (HAV) seroprevalence across different socioeconomic status (SES) categories in Bangladesh which, despite scarce data, is generally deemed to have high endemicity.Keywords
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