Hepatitis A virus seropositivity among hospital and community healthcare workers in Israel - The role of occupation, demography and socioeconomic background

Journal of Hospital Infection

Volumn 54, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 135-140

  Chodick, Gabriel ^a   Ashkenazi, S ^a,b   Aloni, H ^b   Peled, T ^a   Lerman, Y ^a,c  

^a TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

^b SCHNEIDER CHILDREN S MEDICAL CENTER OF ISRAEL   (Israel)

^c Occupational Health and Rehabilitation Institute Israel   (Israel)

Author keywords

Healthcare workers; Hepatitis A; Occupation; Serology

Indexed keywords

HEPATITIS A ANTIBODY; HEPATITIS A VACCINE; IMMUNOGLOBULIN G;

ADULT; AGE; ARTICLE; BLOOD SAMPLING; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; DEMOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE PERSONNEL; HEPATITIS A; HEPATITIS A VIRUS; HOSPITAL PERSONNEL; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; INFECTION SENSITIVITY; ISRAEL; LOGISTIC REGRESSION ANALYSIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MULTIVARIATE LOGISTIC REGRESSION ANALYSIS; OCCUPATION; PARAMEDICAL PERSONNEL; PASSIVE IMMUNIZATION; PHYSICIAN; PRIMARY PREVENTION; RISK ASSESSMENT; RURAL AREA; SEROPREVALENCE; SIBLING; SOCIAL STATUS; VIRUS IMMUNITY; ADOLESCENT; BLOOD; COMMUNITY CARE; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; EPIDEMIOLOGY; HEALTH SURVEY; IMMUNOLOGY; INFECTION CONTROL; MIDDLE AGED; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; OCCUPATIONAL DISEASE; RISK FACTOR; SOCIOECONOMICS; STATISTICAL MODEL; STATISTICS; UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL;

ACADEMIC MEDICAL CENTERS; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; COMMUNITY HEALTH SERVICES; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; FEMALE; HEALTH PERSONNEL; HEPATITIS A; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; INFECTION CONTROL; ISRAEL; LOGISTIC MODELS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; OCCUPATIONAL DISEASES; OCCUPATIONS; POPULATION SURVEILLANCE; RESIDENCE CHARACTERISTICS; RISK FACTORS; SEROEPIDEMIOLOGIC STUDIES; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS;

EID: 0042520969     PISSN: 01956701     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0195-6701(03)00124-5     Document Type: Article

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