Epidemiologic study of chronic hepatitis B virus infection in male volunteer blood donors in Karachi, Pakistan
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Summary
Prevalence of HBsAg positivity in the male volunteer blood donors in Karachi was 2%.
- Type
- article
- Published
- 2005-08-08
- Cited by
- 58
- References
- 48
- Access
- Open access
- OpenAlex
- https://openalex.org/W1682756521
- Semantic Scholar
- https://api.semanticscholar.org/CorpusID:15907973
Keywords
Medicine, HBsAg, Hepatitis B virus, Internal medicine, Odds ratio
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