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General Reports
       
          Journal Papers, Abstracts, and Commentaries
 
  Anti-hepatitis A virus frequency in adolescents at an outpatient clinic in Sao Paulo, Brazil.
Dinelli MI, Fisberg M, Moraes-Pinto MI.
Rev Inst Med Trop Sao Paulo. 2006 Jan-Feb;48(1):43-4.
Abstract
 
Immunity and exposure to hepatitis A virus in pre-adolescent children from a multi-ethnic
inner city area.
Morris-Cunnington M, Edmunds WJ, Miller E.
Commun Dis Public Health. 2004 Jun;7(2):134-7.
Abstract
 
Vaccination
       

          Journal Papers, Abstracts, and Commentaries
 
  A two-dose schedule for combined hepatitis A and B vaccination in children aged
6-15 years.
Kurugol Z, Mutlubas F, Ozacar T.
Vaccine. 2005 Apr 22;23(22):2876-80.
Abstract
 
Comparison of two different vaccination schemes against Hepatitis A and B in Mexican
children and adolescents.
Gonzalez-Huezo MS, Sanchez-Avila F, Garcia Mayol M, et al
Rev Gastroenterol Mex. 2003 Oct-Dec;68(4):271-6.
 Abstract
Prevalence
       
Europe

     United Kingdom
 
          Journal Papers, Abstracts, and Commentaries
 
  Exposure to school children as a risk factor in a community outbreak of hepatitis A i
n young adults: a case control study.
Roberts RJ, Palmer SR.
Epidemiol Infect. 2006 Aug;134(4):803-7
Abstract
 		  
Latin America/Caribbean
 
     Brazil
 
          Journal Papers, Abstracts, and Commentaries
 
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Multilevel analysis of hepatitis A infection in children and adolescents: a household survey in the
Northeast and Central-west regions of Brazil.
de Alencar Ximenes RA, Martelli CM, et al  
Int J Epidemiol. 2008 Aug;37(4):852-61.
 Paper

Middle East

     Saudi Arabia

          Journal Papers, Abstracts, and Commentaries

  Prevalence of anti-hepatitis B and anti-hepatitis A antibodies among school aged children
in Western Saudi Arabia.
Jaber SM.
Saudi Med J. 2006 Oct;27(10):1515-22
Abstract


     Turkey

          Journal Papers, Abstracts, and Commentaries
 
  Changes in seroprevalence of hepatitis A in children and adolescents in Manisa,
Turkey.
Tosun S, Ertan P, Kasirga E, Atman U.
Pediatr Int. 2004 Dec;46(6):669-72.
Abstract
Testing
       
Treatment
       

          Journal Papers, Abstracts, and Commentaries

  Unusual cardiac features in cholestatic hepatitis A in an adolescent: Improvement with
corticosteroid treatment.
Atabek ME, Pirgon O.
J Infect. 2006 Jun 9;
Abstract
 

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