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Epidemiology/Prevalence
           
  Journal Papers, Abstracts, and Commentaries  
 		  
 
Trends in Hepatitis A, B, and Shigellosis Compared With Gonorrhea and Syphilis in Men Who Have Sex With
Men in Amsterdam, 1992-2006.
van Rijckevorsel GG, Sonder GJ, Bovée LP, et al 
Sex Transm Dis. 2008 Jul 31.
 Abstract

Association of hepatitis B virus infection with other sexually transmitted infections in
homosexual men. Omega Study Group.
Remis RS, Dufour A, Alary M, et al
Am J Public Health 2000 Oct;90(10):1570-4
 Abstract

  

          Conference Reports, Abstracts, and Posters

  Seroprevalence of and associated factors for HBsAg among MSM in Peru
Agurto H., Lama J.R., Peinado J., et al
(XVI  International AIDS Conference)
 Abstract
Transmission
           

         Journal Papers, Abstracts, and Commentaries

  A patient in whom only hepatitis B virus (HBV) was thought to have been contracted,
by kissing, from a same-sex partner coinfected with HBV and human immunodeficiency virus-1.
Kubo N, Furusyo N, Sawayama Y, et al   
J Infect Chemother. 2003 Sep;9(3):260-4
 Abstract
Prevention
           
  Journal Papers, Abstracts, and Commentaries  
 		  
 
'Feeling' Risk and Seeing Solutions: Predicting Vaccination Intention  against Hepatitis B Infection among Men
Who Have Sex with Men.
Das E, de Wit JB, Vet R, Frijns T. 
J Health Psychol. 2008 Sep;13(6):728-32.
 Abstract
 
Hepatitis B vaccination of men who have sex with men attending an urban STD clinic:
impact of an ongoing vaccination program, 1998-2003.
Gunn RA, Lee MA, Murray PJ, et al  
Sex Transm Dis. 2007 Sep;34(9):663-8.
 Abstract

Hepatitis B virus infection and vaccination among young injection and non-injection
drug users:missed opportunities to prevent infection.
Kuo I, Sherman SG, Thomas DL, Strathdee SA.  
Drug Alcohol Depend. 2004 Jan 7;73(1):69-7
 Abstract
 
Response to hepatitis-B vaccination in healthy homosexual individuals: retrospective
case control study.
Das S, Brassington M, Drake SM, Boxall E
Vaccine. 2003 Sep 8;21(25-26):3701-5.
 Abstract
 
Hepatitis A and B vaccination in a sexually transmitted disease clinic for men who
have sex with men.
Sansom S, Rudy E, Strine T, Douglas W.
Sex Transm Dis. 2003 Sep;30(9):685-8
Abstract
 
Integrating behavioral theory to understand hepatitis B vaccination among men who
have sex with men.
Rhodes SD, Grimley DM, Hergenrather KC.
Am J Health Behav. 2003 Jul-Aug;27(4):291-300.
Abstract
 
Psychosocial predictors of hepatitis B vaccination among young African-American gay men
 in the deep south.
Rhodes SD, Diclemente RJ.
Sex Transm Dis. 2003 May;30(5):449-54.
 Abstract

Preventing hepatitis A and hepatitis B virus infections among men who have sex with men.
Kahn J.
Clin Infect Dis 2002 Dec 1;35(11):1382-7
 Abstract

Understanding correlates of hepatitis B virus vaccination in men who have sex with men:
what have we learned?
Yee LJ, Rhodes SD.
Sex Transm Infect 2002 Oct;78(5):374-7
 Abstract

Results of an enhanced-outreach programme of hepatitis B vaccination in the Netherlands
(1998-2000) among men who have sex with men, hard drug users, sex workers and
heterosexual persons with multiple partners.
van Steenbergen J. 
J Hepatol 2002 Oct;37(4):507
 Abstract

Why do gay men want to be vaccinated against hepatitis B? An assessment of
psychosocial determinants of vaccination intention.
Schutten M, de Wit JB, van Steenbergen JE.
Int J STD AIDS 2002 Feb;13(2):86-90
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          Conference Reports, Abstracts, and Posters
 
 
Vaccination of Men who have Sex with Men at a Gay Pride Event
ED Storholm, GL Reynolds, Ds Fisher, et al  
(136th APHA)
 Abstract

Correlates of hepatitis A and B vaccination in a health-seeking sample of MSM
DE Siconolfi, PN. Halkitis
 (135  APHA)
Abstract
 
Hep Team Chicago: Promoting Hepatitis Vaccination to MSM
HS Levine
 (2006 National STD Prevention Conference)
 Abstract
Case Studies
           

         Journal Papers, Abstracts, and Commentaries

  FULL-TEXT ARTICLE
A homosexual Japanese man with acute hepatitis due to hepatitis B virus genotype ae,
concurrent with amebic colitis.
Miyake Y, Iwasaki Y, Ishikawa S, et al
Acta Med Okayama. 2007 Feb;61(1):35-9.
 Paper

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