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Clinical features - Original research

Hepatitis B-C and human immunodeficiency virus: seroprevalence and associated factors among health students in Saudi Arabia

Nouf A AlShamlanDepartment of Family and Community Medicine, Imam Abdulrahman Bin Faisal University, Dammam, Saudi ArabiaCorrespondence[email protected]
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Malak A Al ShammariDepartment of Family and Community Medicine, Imam Abdulrahman Bin Faisal University, Dammam, Saudi ArabiaORCID Iconhttps://orcid.org/0000-0002-7434-7432
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Pages 221-228 | Received 22 Jan 2021, Accepted 04 Mar 2021, Published online: 15 Apr 2021

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