Hepatitis B immunity in Australia: A comparison of national and prisoner population serosurveys

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Hepatitis B immunity in Australia: A comparison of national and prisoner population serosurveys

In Australia, hepatitis B (HBV) vaccination is recommended for injecting drug users (IDUs), Indigenous adults and prisoners. We compared immunity to HBV in prisoners and the general population obtained from national serosurveys in 2007. Individuals with HBV surface antibody (HBsAb) positive sera wer...

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Main Authors:	Gidding, H., Mahajan, D., Reekie, J., Lloyd, A., Dwyer, D., Butler, Tony
Format:	Journal Article
Published:	2015
Online Access:	http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/24852

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