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Dramatic reduction in hepatitis B through school-based immunization without a routine infant program in a low endemicity region

BACKGROUND: Hepatitis B (HB) prevention in the low-endemicity province of Quebec Canada, (population: ~8.2 million; birth cohort ~85,000/year), includes two decades of pre-adolescent school-based immunization, as well as catch-up immunization for those born since 1983 and pre-natal maternal HBsAg sc...

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Autores principales: Porgo, Teegwendé Valérie, Gilca, Vladimir, De Serres, Gaston, Tremblay, Michèle, Skowronski, Danuta
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2015
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4464119/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26062979
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12879-015-0979-8