A Cross-Sectional Analysis of Acute Hepatitis B Virus Reported to the Vancouver Coastal Health Authority from 2000 to 2003

Yvette Leung; Jessica Ip Chan; Eric Yoshida; Hong-Xing Wu; Patricia C Daly

doi:10.1155/2006/134268

Canadian Journal of Gastroenterology (Jan 2006)

A Cross-Sectional Analysis of Acute Hepatitis B Virus Reported to the Vancouver Coastal Health Authority from 2000 to 2003

Yvette Leung,
Jessica Ip Chan,
Eric Yoshida,
Hong-Xing Wu,
Patricia C Daly

Affiliations

Yvette Leung: Department of Medicine, University of British Columbia, Canada
Jessica Ip Chan: Communicable Disease Control for the Vancouver Coastal Health Authority, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
Eric Yoshida: Department of Medicine, University of British Columbia, Canada
Hong-Xing Wu: Blood Safety Surveillance and Health Care Acquired Infection Division, Centre for Infectious Disease Prevention and Control, Public Health Agency of Canada, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
Patricia C Daly: Communicable Disease Control for the Vancouver Coastal Health Authority, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1155/2006/134268
Journal volume & issue: Vol. 20, no. 7
pp. 471 – 474

Abstract

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BACKGROUND: Acute hepatitis B virus (HBV) transmission remains a significant public health problem despite effective vaccination and prophylaxis strategies. Vancouver, British Columbia, has a large ethnic community from endemic areas, which may further impact on the epidemiology of acute HBV. A cross-sectional study of factors associated with acute HBV cases reported to the Vancouver Coastal Health Authority (Vancouver, British Columbia) from 2000 to 2003 is reported.

Published in Canadian Journal of Gastroenterology

ISSN: 0835-7900 (Print); 1916-7237 (Online)
Publisher: Wiley
Country of publisher: United Kingdom
LCC subjects: Medicine: Internal medicine: Specialties of internal medicine: Diseases of the digestive system. Gastroenterology
Website: https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/journal/1720

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