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Incidence of hepatitis B virus infection in the United
States, 1976-1994: estimates from the National Health and Nutrition Examination
Surveys.
Coleman PJ, McQuillan GM, Moyer LA, Lambert SB, Margolis HS.
Hepatitis Branch, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, Georgia
30333, USA.
Precise estimates of the incidence of hepatitis B virus (HBV) infection are
required to assess the impact of immunization and other prevention strategies in
the United States. Race- and
age-specific prevalence data
obtained from the second and third National Health and Nutrition Examination
Surveys (NHANES II, 1976-1980, and NHANES III, 1988-1994)
were used to estimate the annual
incidence of HBV infection by catalytic modeling. During the period
covered by NHANES II, an estimated 323,462 persons were infected annually, and
334,863 were infected annually during the period covered by
NHANES III.
No
statistically significant declines in prevalence of HBV infection occurred
between the two surveys, a period during which hepatitis B vaccination targeted
only limited numbers of high-risk adults.
PMID: 9806021 [PubMed - indexed for MEDLINE]
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