Hepatitis B among female sex workers in Ribeirão Preto - São Paulo, Brazil Hepatite B entre mulheres profissionais do sexo em Ribeirão Preto - São Paulo, Brasil

• Egile Nagusiak: Afonso Dinis Costa Passos (Egilea), José Fernando de Castro Figueiredo (Egilea), Ana de Lourdes Candolo Martinelli (Egilea), Márcia Guimarães Villanova (Egilea), Margarida Pásseri do Nascimento (Egilea), Ana Maria Coimbra Gaspar (Egilea), Clara Fumiko Tachibana Yoshida (Egilea)
• Formatua: Liburua
• Argitaratua: Associação Brasileira de Pós-Graduação em Saúde Coletiva, 2007-12-01T00:00:00Z.
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OBJECTIVE: To estimate the prevalence of hepatitis B markers and to study the risk factors for this disease among female sex workers in the city of Ribeirão Preto, Brazil. METHODS: A questionnaire was given to 449 female sex workers in order to obtain information about demographic, socioeconomic an...