Hepatitis B vaccine birth dose in India: time to reconsider

• Main Authors: Pragyan Paramita Parija (Author), Mohan Kumar M (Author)
• Formato: Libro
• Publicado: Taylor & Francis Group, 2020-01-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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Viral hepatitis is increasingly being recognized as a public health problem in India with 96% of all hepatitis mortality attributed to hepatitis B and C combined. It has been recognized that hepatitis B vaccination has resulted in substantial reductions in the incidence of acute and chronic hepatiti...