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Sero-prevalence and risk factors for hepatitis B virus infection among health care workers in a tertiary hospital in Uganda

BACKGROUND: Hepatitis B virus (HBV) infection is a global public health challenge. Prevalence of current hepatitis B virus infection in the general population in Uganda is about 10%. Health care workers (HCW) have an extra risk of getting infected from their workplace and yet they are not routinely...

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Autores principales:	Ziraba, Abdhalah K, Bwogi, Josephine, Namale, Alice, Wainaina, Caroline W, Mayanja-Kizza, Harriet
Formato:	Texto
Lenguaje:	English
Publicado:	BioMed Central 2010
Materias:	Research Article
Acceso en línea:	https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2910699/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20587047 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1471-2334-10-191

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