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Estimations of worldwide prevalence of chronic hepatitis B virus infection: a systematic review of data published between 1965 and 2013.

Aparna Schweitzer, +4 more
- 17 Oct 2015 - 
- Vol. 386, Iss: 10003, pp 1546-1555
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This first global assessment of country-level population prevalence of chronic HBV infection found a wide variation between countries and highlights the need for continued prevention and control strategies and the collection of reliable epidemiologic data using standardised methodology.
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This article is published in The Lancet.The article was published on 2015-10-17. It has received 2130 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: HBsAg & Hepatitis B virus.

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Immunity to hepatitis B persists in adolescents 15-16 years of age vaccinated in infancy with three doses of hepatitis B vaccine.

Olivier Van Der Meeren, +2 more
- 23 May 2016 - 
TL;DR: Immunity to hepatitis B persists in 15-16 year old adolescents following primary vaccination in infancy, and the safety and reactogenicity profile of the hepatitis B vaccine challenge dose was consistent with previous experience.
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Screening for infectious diseases among newly arrived asylum seekers, Bavaria, Germany, 2015.

Nikolaus Ackermann, +19 more
- 01 Mar 2018 - 
TL;DR: A focus of mandatory screening on specific diseases in asylum seekers originating from countries with higher prevalence of those diseases could facilitate early diagnosis and provision of treatment to affected individuals while saving resources.
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Elimination of Hepatitis B: Is It a Mission Possible?

Tai-Chung Tseng, +1 more
- 15 Mar 2017 - 
TL;DR: It has been shown that tenofovir treatment, a potent NA, complements current immunoprophylaxis to diminish mother-to-infant transmission in pregnant women with a high viral load.
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Diabetes Mellitus and Risk of Hepatic Fibrosis/Cirrhosis.

Xu Li, +3 more
- 04 Apr 2019 - 
TL;DR: Clinical ties between DM and liver fibrosis and hepatic cirrhosis and related biologic mechanisms are examined and pathways contributing to various etiologies of Cirrhosis in conjunction with DM are explored.
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Point-of-care screening for hepatitis B virus infection in pregnant women at an antenatal clinic: A South African experience.

Nafiisah Chotun, +8 more
- 21 Jul 2017 - 
TL;DR: Screening pregnant women for HBV using a point-of-care (POC) test has acceptable performance, is inexpensive, reliable, and was well accepted by the study participants, and is feasible in a South African clinical setting.
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Preferred reporting items for systematic reviews and meta-analyses: the PRISMA statement

David Moher, +4 more
- 21 Jul 2009 - 
TL;DR: Moher et al. as mentioned in this paper introduce PRISMA, an update of the QUOROM guidelines for reporting systematic reviews and meta-analyses, which is used in this paper.
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Preferred reporting items for systematic reviews and meta-analyses: the PRISMA Statement.

David Moher, +4 more
- 21 Jul 2009 - 
TL;DR: The QUOROM Statement (QUality Of Reporting Of Meta-analyses) as mentioned in this paper was developed to address the suboptimal reporting of systematic reviews and meta-analysis of randomized controlled trials.
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Preferred reporting items for systematic reviews and meta-analyses: The PRISMA statement

David Moher, +4 more
- 01 Jan 2010 - 
TL;DR: A structured summary is provided including, as applicable, background, objectives, data sources, study eligibility criteria, participants, interventions, study appraisal and synthesis methods, results, limitations, conclusions and implications of key findings.
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Global, regional, and national age-sex specific all-cause and cause-specific mortality for 240 causes of death, 1990-2013: A systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2013

Mohsen Naghavi, +731 more
- 10 Jan 2015 - 
TL;DR: In the Global Burden of Disease Study 2013 (GBD 2013) as discussed by the authors, the authors used the GBD 2010 methods with some refinements to improve accuracy applied to an updated database of vital registration, survey, and census data.
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