Hepatitis B virus markers among teenagers in the Araguaia region, Central Brazil: Assessment of prevalence and vaccination coverage

Our findings classify this area as low endemic for HBV and suggest that there is a progressive decrease in the spread of HBV in the region due to the introduction of universal vaccination of neonates. Approximately half of the adolescents 15 years or older were not immunized, which raises a concern in terms of the need to increase the vaccination rate for this segment of the population.