| Risk
Groups for HBV Infection (1) |
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| • | Immigrants/refugees
from areas of high HBV |
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| endemicity
(Asia, Pacific Islands,
Sub-Saharan |
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| Africa,
Amazon Basin, E. Europe, Middle East) |
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| • | Children
born in U.S. to immigrants from areas of |
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| high
HBV endemicity |
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| • | Alaska
Natives and Pacific Islanders |
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| • | Household
contacts and sex partners of people |
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| with
chronic HBV infection |
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