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Kathleen N. Ly

Researcher at Centers for Disease Control and Prevention

Publications -  32
Citations -  2971

Kathleen N. Ly is an academic researcher from Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. The author has contributed to research in topics: Hepatitis B & Population. The author has an hindex of 11, co-authored 30 publications receiving 2605 citations.

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The Increasing Burden of Mortality From Viral Hepatitis in the United States Between 1999 and 2007

TL;DR: By 2007, HCV had superseded HIV as a cause of death in the United States, and deaths from HCV and HBV disproportionately occurred in middle-aged persons, requiring new policy initiatives to detect patients with chronic hepatitis and link them to care and treatment.
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Rising Mortality Associated With Hepatitis C Virus in the United States, 2003–2013

TL;DR: In the United States, hepatitis C virus (HCV)-associated mortality is increasing, and from 2003-2013, the number of deaths associated with HCV has now surpassed 60 other nationally notifiable infectious conditions combined.

CDC guidance for evaluating health-care personnel for hepatitis B virus protection and for administering postexposure management.

TL;DR: Advice is provided for clinicians, occupational health and student health providers, infection-control specialists, hospital and health-care training program administrators, and others in selection of an approach for assessing HBV protection for vaccinated HCP.
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Prevalence of chronic hepatitis B virus (HBV) infection in U.S. households: National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey (NHANES), 1988-2012.

TL;DR: Despite increasing immune protection in young persons vaccinated in infancy, an analysis of chronic hepatitis B prevalence in racial and ethnic populations indicates that during 2011‐2012, there were 847,000 HBV infections in the noninstitutionalized U.S. population.