"Epidemiological Patterns of Hepatitis B Virus (HBV) in Highly Endemic Areas."

According to the authors' abstract of an article published in Epidemiology and Infection, "This paper uses meta-analysis of published data and a deterministic mathematical model of hepatitis B virus (HBV) transmission to describe the patterns of HBV infection in high endemicity areas. We describe the association between the prevalence of carriers and a simple measure of the rate of infection, the age at which half the population have been infected (A(50)), and assess the contribution of horizontal and perinatal transmission to this association. We found that the two main hyper-endemic areas of sub-Saharan Africa and east Asia have similar prevalences of carriers and values of A(50), and...

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