Benefits of Serologic Screening for Hepatitis B Immunity in Military Recruits
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Benefits of serologic screening for hepatitis B immunity in military recruits.
NOTE. CI, confidence interval. a Unadjusted for sex. To the Editor—Scott et al. present rates of hepatitis B immunity among US military recruits and predict increasing immunity over time on the basis of their finding of increasing immunity in successive birth cohorts [1]. We present confirmation of this prediction, from recent se-rosurveillance efforts, which suggested widespread acceptance of ...
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عنوان ژورنال: The Journal of Infectious Diseases
سال: 2005
ISSN: 0022-1899,1537-6613
DOI: 10.1086/498045