Vaccination against hepatitis B virus: are Thai medical students sufficiently protected?
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em Inglês
| IMSEAR
| ID: sea-40706
ABSTRACT
Medical students are frequently at risk of being infected by hepatitis B virus (HBV) via occupational exposure to infected blood or body fluids. In 2002, the Faculty of Medicine, Siriraj Hospital provided screening tests for HBV serology to all medical students for a vaccination campaign against the infection. There were 1,165 medical students tested. Eight hundred and eleven (69.6%) students had immunity by previous vaccination, but more importantly 212 (18.2%) had no immunity and required vaccination. Most of the students who needed to be vaccinated were in the pre-clinical year (82.5%). Moreover, the students in the pre-clinical year who had previous vaccination had a 2.2 times greater risk of having negative anti-HBs than the students in the clinical year (OR = 2.2, 95% CI = 1.4-3.5). This is because they might have been vaccinated when they were young and the antibody waned overtime.
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Assunto principal:
Estudantes de Medicina
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Tailândia
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Feminino
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Humanos
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Masculino
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Estudos Soroepidemiológicos
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Programas de Rastreamento
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Vacinação
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Vacinas contra Hepatite B
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Adulto
Tipo de estudo:
Estudo de rastreamento
País/Região como assunto:
Ásia
Idioma:
Inglês
Ano de publicação:
2005
Tipo de documento:
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