| origin of the zika virus revealed: a historical journey across the world. | zika virus (zikv) is an arbovirus within the flaviviridae family, the recent spread of which has promoted public concern. | 2016 | 27650823 |
| infection frequency of hepatitis c virus and il28b haplotypes in papua new guinea, fiji, and kiribati. | it has been estimated that there are more than 60 million hepatitis c virus (hcv) carriers in the world health organisation's western pacific region (who-wpr), where liver cancer is among the top three causes of cancer death. who and the us centres for disease control and prevention report the prevalence of hcv in the south pacific islands (countries within the who-wpr) to be high (5-10% and >2% respectively). however, since hcv is not tested for in many of these countries, there is sparse data ... | 2013 | 23976941 |
| viral hepatitis and liver cancer on the island of guam. | patient records from the guam cancer registry were compared with patients listed in a health department viral hepatitis case registry and the numbers of liver cancer and viral hepatitis cases were compared by ethnicity. hepatitis c was the form of viral hepatitis most common among liver cancer cases on guam (63.3% of viral hepatitis-associated liver cancer cases). since viral hepatitis is an important cause of liver cancer, studies such as the present one may provide the information necessary to ... | 2013 | 23803099 |
| vaccine-preventable disease susceptibility in a young adult micronesian population. | current us military recruit vaccination policy presumes that recruits have had a complete childhood immunization series. this assumption may not be appropriate for recruits from micronesia, who may have had limited access to modern health care, including immunization programs. during 1988 and 1990, a cross-sectional serosurvey was conducted among 66 us military recruits, 56 from the federated states of micronesia and 10 from the republic of the marshall islands, collectively referred to as micro ... | 1994 | 7777928 |