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Patient to patient transmission of hepatitis B virus: a systematic review of reports on outbreaks between 1992 and 2007

Simone Lanini*, Vincenzo Puro, Francesco N Lauria, Francesco M Fusco, Carla Nisii and Giuseppe Ippolito

  • * Corresponding author: Simone Lanini lanini@inmi.it

  • † Equal contributors

Author Affiliations

Istituto Nazionale per le Malattie Infettive, Lazzaro Spallanzani-Roma, Via Portuense, 00149 Rome, Italy

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BMC Medicine 2009, 7:15 doi:10.1186/1741-7015-7-15

Published: 8 April 2009

Additional files

Additional file 1:

Quorom statement checklist. This dataset includes the Quorum checklist as required by the editorial policies.

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Additional file 2:

Synopsis of analyzed outbreaks. This dataset includes bibliographic references and the most relevant epidemiologic parameters.

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