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Patrick J. Coleman

Researcher at Centers for Disease Control and Prevention

Publications -  20
Citations -  2977

Patrick J. Coleman is an academic researcher from Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. The author has contributed to research in topics: Hepatitis B & Vaccination. The author has an hindex of 16, co-authored 19 publications receiving 2942 citations.

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Importance of Heterosexual Activity in the Transmission of Hepatitis B and Non-A, Non-B Hepatitis

TL;DR: This is the first study to suggest that heterosexual transmission may play an important role in the spread of NANB hepatitis.
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Prevention of hepatitis B virus transmission by immunization. An economic analysis of current recommendations

TL;DR: Routine vaccination of infants in successive birth cohorts to prevent HBV transmission is cost-effective over a wide range of assumptions and could serve to protect those children who were not vaccinated as infants.
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Immunogenicity of Hepatitis B Vaccines Implications for Persons at Occupational Risk of Hepatitis B Virus Infection

TL;DR: Hepatitis B vaccines are highly immunogenic, but have decreased immunogenicity associated with increasing age, obesity, smoking, and male gender; and among older adults, the presence of a chronic disease.
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Outcome of Hepatitis B Virus Infection in Homosexual Men and Its Relation to Prior Human Immunodeficiency Virus Infection

TL;DR: HIV-1 infection was associated with reduced alanine aminotransferase elevations during the first 36 months of follow-up of men who became HBV carriers, suggesting inactivated hepatitis B vaccine may temporarily impair the immune response to HBV infection in HIV-1-infected persons.