Hepatitis B among female sex workers in Ribeirão Preto - São Paulo, Brazil Hepatite B entre mulheres profissionais do sexo em Ribeirão Preto - São Paulo, Brasil

OBJECTIVE: To estimate the prevalence of hepatitis B markers and to study the risk factors for this disease among female sex workers in the city of Ribeirão Preto, Brazil. METHODS: A questionnaire was given to 449 female sex workers in order to obtain information about demographic, socioeconomic and...

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Main Authors: Afonso Dinis Costa Passos, José Fernando de Castro Figueiredo, Ana de Lourdes Candolo Martinelli, Márcia Guimarães Villanova, Margarida Pásseri do Nascimento, Ana Maria Coimbra Gaspar, Clara Fumiko Tachibana Yoshida
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Associação Brasileira de Pós-Graduação em Saúde Coletiva 2007-12-01
Series:Revista Brasileira de Epidemiologia
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Online Access:http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S1415-790X2007000400010