Migrants and hepatitis: A tale of two worlds

Loreta A Kondili^{1

2}, Antonio Craxì³

Affiliations

¹ Center for Global Health, Istituto Superiore di Sanità, Rome, Italy.
² UniCamillus-Saint Camillus International University of Health Sciences, Rome, Italy.
³ PROMISE, School of Medicine, University of Palermo, Palermo, Italy.

Comment

Loreta A Kondili et al. J Viral Hepat. 2023 Aug.

. 2023 Aug;30(8):634-637.

doi: 10.1111/jvh.13866. Epub 2023 Jun 21.

Loreta A Kondili^{1

2}, Antonio Craxì³

¹ Center for Global Health, Istituto Superiore di Sanità, Rome, Italy.
² UniCamillus-Saint Camillus International University of Health Sciences, Rome, Italy.
³ PROMISE, School of Medicine, University of Palermo, Palermo, Italy.

No abstract available

Keywords: Europe; hepatitis B infection; hepatitis C infection; migrants; refugees.

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A population-based study of reported hepatitis C diagnoses from 1998 to 2018 in immigrants and nonimmigrants in Quebec, Canada.
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