Worldwide epidemiology of HBV infection, disease burden, and vaccine prevention.

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Published in J Clin Virol on December 01, 2005

Authors

D Lavanchy1

Author Affiliations

1: World Health Organization, Department of Communicable Diseases Surveillance and Response, Geneva, Switzerland.

Associated clinical trials:

Tenofovir in Early Pregnancy to Prevent Mother-to-child Transmission of Hepatitis B Virus | NCT02995005

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