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Hepatitis B virus detected in paper currencies in a densely populated city of India: A plausible source of horizontal transmission?

BACKGROUND: The recent rise in the incidence of hepatitis B virus (HBV) infections in a densely populated city of eastern India (“mixing vessel” of people of varied socio-economic and immune status) prompted this study. Applying saliva on fingers for enumerating bank notes is a common practice in th...

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Autores principales: Das, Palashpriya, Supekar, Ruchi, Chatterjee, Ritika, Roy, Subrata, Ghosh, Anisa, Biswas, Subhajit
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Baishideng Publishing Group Inc 2020
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7643218/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33200016
http://dx.doi.org/10.4254/wjh.v12.i10.775