Hepatitis B immunity in a population of drug and alcohol users

Drug and Alcohol Review

Volumn 26, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 417-419

  Polizzotto, M N ^a,b   Whelan, G ^a  

^a ST VINCENT S HOSPITAL   (Australia)

^b ALFRED HOSPITAL   (Australia)

Author keywords

Alcohol dependence; Drug dependence; Hepatitis B; Immunisation; Immunity

Indexed keywords

HEPATITIS B ANTIBODY; HEPATITIS B ANTIGEN;

ADDICTION; ADULT; ALCOHOLISM; ARTICLE; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; AUSTRALIA; BLOOD; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; DRUG DEPENDENCE TREATMENT; EPIDEMIOLOGY; FEMALE; HEPATITIS B; HEPATITIS B VIRUS; HUMAN; IMMUNOLOGY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PREVALENCE;

ADULT; ALCOHOLISM; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; FEMALE; HEALTH KNOWLEDGE, ATTITUDES, PRACTICE; HEPATITIS B; HEPATITIS B ANTIBODIES; HEPATITIS B ANTIGENS; HEPATITIS B VIRUS; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PREVALENCE; SEROEPIDEMIOLOGIC STUDIES; SUBSTANCE ABUSE TREATMENT CENTERS; SUBSTANCE-RELATED DISORDERS; VICTORIA;

EID: 34250346363     PISSN: 09595236     EISSN: 14653362     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/09595230701373909     Document Type: Article

References (22)

1. Farrell GC. Acute viral hepatitis. Med J Aust 1998; 168:565-70.
2. Farrell GC. Chronic viral hepatitis. Med J Aust 1998; 168:619-26.
3. Wood AJ. Vaccines to prevent viral hepatitis. N Engl J Med 1997;3:196-204.
4. Banatvala JE, van Damme P. Hepatitis B vaccine - do we need boosters? J Viral Hepatol 2003; 10:1 -6.
5. Aggarwal R, Ranjan P. Preventing and treating hepatitis B infection. BMJ 2004;329:1080-6.
6. O'Sullivan BG, Gidding HF, Law M, et al. Estimates of chronic hepatitis B virus infection in Australis. Aust NZ J Public Health 2004;3:212-8.
7. Kane MA, Alter MJ, Hadler SC, Margolis HS. Hepatitis B infection in the United States: recent trends and future strategies for control. Am J Med 1989;87(suppl 3A):11-13s.
8. Thompson SC, Stevenson E, Wilby R, Crofts N. Hepatitis B infection in Victoria 1992: time to review the high-risk vaccination strategy. Med J Aust 1993;159:562-3.
9. Thompson SC, Ogilvie EL, Veit FC, Crofts N. Juvenile offenders and hepatitis B: risk, vaccine uptake and vaccination status. Med J Aust 1998;169:306-9.
10. Alter MJ, Hadler SC, Margolis HS, et al. The changing epidemiology of hepatitis B in the United States. Need for alternative vaccine strategies. JAMA 1990;263:1218-22.
11. Unlinked Anonymous Surveys Steering Group. Prevalence of HIV and hepatitis infection in the United Kingdom in 2000. Survey of injecting drug users in contact with drug services. London: Department of Health, 2001.
12. Members of Australian Technical Advisory Group on Immunisation. The Australian immunisation handbook. Canberra: Department of Health and Aging, 2003.
13. Winstock AR. High risk groups are still not being vaccinated. BMJ 2005;330:198.
14. Boughton CR, Hawkes RA. Viral hepatitis and the drug cult: a brief socio-epidemiological study in Sydney. Aust NZ J Med 1980;10:157-61.
15. Kuo I, Mudrick DW, Strathdee SA, Thomas DL, Sherman SG. Poor validity of self-reported hepatitis B virus infection and vaccination status among young drug users. Clin Infect Dis 2004;4:587-90.
16. Best D, Noble A, Finch E, Gossop M, Sidwell C, Strang J. Accuracy of perceptions of hepatitis B and C status: cross sectional investigation of opiate addicts in treatment. BMJ 1999;319:290-1.
17. Stanford MP, Black TR, March LM, Holt DA, Campbell DH. Hepatitis B vaccination rates among staff at a district general hospital. Med J Aust 1995;162:304-6.
18. McGregor J, Marks PJ, Hayward A, Bell Y, Slack RC. Factors influencing hepatitis B vaccine uptake in injecting drug users. J Public Health Med 2003;25:165-70.
19. Datt N, Feinmann C. The practical business of treatment -13. Providing health care for drug users? Br J Addict 1990;85:1571-5.
20. Thompson SC, Oman K. Why should Australia adopt universal infant hepatitis B vaccination? Aust N Z J Public Health 1996;20:436- 9.
21. Centers for Disease Control. Hepatitis B virus: a comprehensive strategy for eliminating transmission in the United States through universal childhood vaccination: recommendations of the Immunization Practices Advisory Committee (ACIP). MMWR 1991:40:1-25.
22. Quaglio G, Lugoboni F, Mezzelani P. HBV vaccination should be performed in service centres for drug users: an Italian experience. J Public Health (Oxf) 2004;26:320.