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SUBMITTER: Meireles LC
PROVIDER: S-EPMC4550866 | biostudies-literature | 2015 Aug
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Meireles Liliane C LC Marinho Rui Tato RT Van Damme Pierre P
World journal of hepatology 20150801 18
Hepatitis B virus (HBV) continues to represent a major health problem and can lead to acute liver failure, acute hepatitis, chronic carriership, chronic hepatitis of HBV, liver cirrhosis, liver cancer, liver transplantation and death. There is a marked difference in the geographic distribution of carriers. More than 240 million people worldwide are chronic HBV carriers. Mother-to-child transmission remains the most important mechanism of infection in countries with a high prevalence of HBV. Perc ...[more]