Assessment of knowledge, attitude, and practices toward prevention of hepatitis B infection among medical students in a high-risk setting of a newly established medical institution

Assessment of knowledge, attitude, and practices toward prevention of hepatitis B infection among medical students in a high-risk setting of a newly established medical institution

BACKGROUND: India is in the intermediate hepatitis B virus endemicity zone with hepatitis B surface antigen prevalence among the general population ranges from 2% to 8%. Among health-care workers, seroprevalence is two to four times higher than that of the general population. AIM: The aim...

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Main Authors: Akanksha Rathi, Vikas Kumar, Jitendra Majhi, Shalini Jain, Panna Lal, Satyavir Singh
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Thieme Medical and Scientific Publishers Pvt. Ltd. 2018-10-01
Series:Journal of Laboratory Physicians
Subjects:
hepatitis screening
hepatitis b
high risk
knowledge
attitude
and practices
medical students
Online Access:http://www.thieme-connect.de/DOI/DOI?10.4103/JLP.JLP_93_18

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