Relationship between the prevalence of antibodies to arbovirus and hepatitis B virus in the Vale do Ribeira region, Brazil

• Published in: Revista do Instituto de Medicina Tropical de São Paulo
• Main Authors: Cláudio Sérgio Pannuti, Lygia Busch Iversson, João Silva de Mendonça, Amélia P. A. Travassos da Rosa, Celso Francisco Hernandes Granato
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Universidade de São Paulo (USP) 1989
• Subjects: Hepatitis B transmission; Hepatitis B seroepidemiology; Arbovirus and Hepatitis B; Arctic medicine. Tropical medicine; RC955-962; Infectious and parasitic diseases; RC109-216; Abbott; Arctic; Eia
• Online Access: https://doi.org/10.1590/S0036-46651989000200008; https://doaj.org/article/be2911c295d246bdb864310e29becd4b

280 students, between 6 and 14 years old, residents in the Iguape county, southern coast of the State of São Paulo, were studied in order to identify the existence of a possible association between the prevalence of specific antibodies to the hepatitis B virus and the exposure to haematophagous mosq...