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Premarital hepatitis screening

Attitude towards screening and the risk factors for transmission

Ibtehaj M. Alharbi and Badr M. Aljarallah
Saudi Medical Journal December 2018, 39 (12) 1179-1185; DOI: https://doi.org/10.15537/smj.2018.12.23495

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