Department of Social and Preventive Medicine, Hallym University College of Medicine, Republic of Korea; Division of Pediatric Infectious Diseases, Warren Alpert Medical School of Brown University, USA.
Busan Center for Infectious Disease Control and Prevention, Busan National University Hospital, Republic of Korea.
Vaccine. 2020 Jan 22;38(4):712-714. doi: 10.1016/j.vaccine.2019.11.048. Epub 2019 Nov 29.
We examined the trend in gender difference for hepatitis A incidence in South Korea after introducing universal vaccination in toddlers and in military recruits. We found that the male-female incidence rate ratio has decreased significantly especially among persons aged 20-29 years, suggesting additional impact from vaccinating military recruits.
我们研究了在向幼儿和军人普及疫苗接种后,韩国甲型肝炎发病率的性别差异趋势。我们发现,特别是在 20-29 岁人群中,男女发病率比值显著下降,表明接种军人的疫苗具有额外影响。