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Hepatitis B Screening and Vaccination Strategies for Newly Arrived Adult Canadian Immigrants and Refugees: A Cost-Effectiveness Analysis

BACKGROUND: Immigrants have increased mortality from hepatocellular carcinoma as compared to the host populations, primarily due to undetected chronic hepatitis B virus (HBV) infection. Despite this, there are no systematic programs in most immigrant-receiving countries to screen for chronic HBV inf...

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Autores principales: Rossi, Carmine, Schwartzman, Kevin, Oxlade, Olivia, Klein, Marina B., Greenaway, Chris
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Public Library of Science 2013
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3799697/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24205255
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0078548