Hepatitis B vaccination status of health care workers and their antiHBs titres - A cross sectional study
Back ground: The risk from occupational exposure to HBV infection is 2-4 times higher in HCW’s. A protective vaccine with a reported efficacy of 95% is available. Yet many HCW’s in developing countries remain non vaccinated, incompletely vaccinated or if vaccinated unaware of their post vaccination...
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Format: | Article |
Language: | English |
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Al Ameen Medical College
2014-07-01
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Series: | Al Ameen Journal of Medical Sciences |
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Online Access: | http://ajms.alameenmedical.org/ArticlePDFs/9%20AJMS%20V7.N3.2014%20p%20217-223.pdf |