サハラ以南のアフリカにおける一般人におけるウイルス性肝炎の流行:体系的なレビューとメタ解析の総括レビュー

Julia Sophie Sticher1,2, Katalin R Csermak2, Nekoye Otsyula3

  • 1Department of Chemistry and Applied Biosciences, ETH Zurich, Zürich, Switzerland.

BMJ open
|September 2, 2025
PubMed
まとめ

ウイルス性肝炎はサハラ以南のアフリカ (SSA) の重要な公衆衛生問題です. この総括的なレビューでは,SSAにおける肝炎の流行率が世界の推定値より高いことが判明し,かなりの疾患負担が浮き彫りにされています.

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