Prevalence of past hepatitis A infection among Crohn’s patients and controls – An examination of the ‘hygiene hypothesis’, and the need for hepatitis A vaccination

Our study aimed to determine the prevalence of prior exposure to hepatitis A virus in Crohn’s disease patients, whose IgG antibody levels against hepatitis A virus were compared with age and sex-matched controls. All of the 41 cases with Crohn’s disease and 43 controls included in the study tested p...

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Veröffentlicht in:	Tropical doctor 2021-04, Vol.51 (2), p.193-197
Hauptverfasser:	Kalra, Parika, John, Anoop, Jaleel, Rajeeb, Simon, Ebby G, Babji, Sudhir, Joseph, AJ
Format:	Artikel
Sprache:	eng
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