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Hepatitis B infections in the Arsi region of Ethiopia

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In a sample of inhabitants of the Arsi region of Ethiopia prevalence of hepatitis B is around 80% in the age group 20–24. In addition to age, sex and size of family, exposure to tribal practices is a determinant of seropositivity in this group accounting for as much as 20'% of the total burden of the infection.

Waiting for a mass vaccination campaign, presently unrealistic in this area of the world, health education, as part of a comprehensive primary health care program, has to be considered as a potentially effective preventive tool.

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  1. Laboratorio di Epidemiologia e Biostatistica, Istituto Superiore di Sanità, Viale Regina Elena 299, 00161, Roma, Italy

    P. Pasquini, L. Bisanti, P. Palladino, C. Rozera & S. Conti

  2. Laboratorio di Virologia, Istituto Superiore di Sanità, Rome, Italy

    L. Soldo, E. Frontini, A. Miozzo & M. Rapicetta

  3. Direzione Generale per la Cooperazione allo Sviluppo, Ministero Af fari Esteri, Rome, Italy

    T. M. Di Gennaro

  4. Asella Hospital, Asella, Ethiopia

    A. Indi

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Pasquini, P., Bisanti, L., Soldo, L. et al. Hepatitis B infections in the Arsi region of Ethiopia. Eur J Epidemiol 4, 310–313 (1988). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00148915

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