How medical students in their pre-clinical year perceive their own hepatitis-B-virus status: The results of a study in a Thai medical school

Annals of Tropical Medicine and Parasitology

Volumn 96, Issue 6, 2002, Pages 627-630

  Wiwanitkit, V ^a  

^a CHULALONGKORN UNIVERSITY   (Thailand)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HEPATITIS B ANTIBODY; HEPATITIS B SURFACE ANTIBODY; HEPATITIS B VACCINE; HEPATITIS B(E) ANTIGEN;

ANTIGEN DETECTION; ARTICLE; CLINICAL PRACTICE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE CARRIER; DISEASE SEVERITY; EXPOSURE; HEALTH STATUS; HEPATITIS B; HEPATITIS B VIRUS; HUMAN; IMMUNE STATUS; IMMUNITY; MEDICAL EDUCATION; MEDICAL SCHOOL; MEDICAL STUDENT; SCREENING; SERODIAGNOSIS; THAILAND; VACCINATION; VIRUS INFECTIVITY;

ADULT; ATTITUDE OF HEALTH PERSONNEL; CARRIER STATE; DISEASE TRANSMISSION, PATIENT-TO-PROFESSIONAL; HEALTH BEHAVIOR; HEPATITIS B; HEPATITIS B ANTIBODIES; HEPATITIS B VACCINES; HUMANS; STUDENTS, MEDICAL; THAILAND; VACCINATION;

HEPATITIS B VIRUS; RNA VIRUSES;

EID: 0036742445     PISSN: 00034983     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1179/000349802125001672     Document Type: Article

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