Low levels of awareness, vaccine coverage, and the need for boosters among health care workers in tertiary care hospitals in India

Journal of Gastroenterology and Hepatology (Australia)

Volumn 23, Issue 11, 2008, Pages 1710-1715

  Sukriti, ^a   Pati, Nirupma Trehan ^a   Sethi, Ankur ^b   Agrawal, Kireet ^b   Agrawal, Kamal ^b   Kumar, Gollapudi Tharun ^a   Kumar, Manoj ^a   Kaanan, Anjur Tupil ^b   Sarin, Shiv Kumar ^a  

^a G B PANT HOSPITAL   (India)

^b UCMS AND GTB HOSPITAL   (India)

Author keywords

Health care workers; Hepatitis B; Hepatitis B virus vaccination; Hepatitis C; Occult hepatits B virus

Indexed keywords

BIOLOGICAL MARKER; HEPATITIS B ANTIBODY; HEPATITIS B ANTIGEN; HEPATITIS B CORE ANTIGEN; HEPATITIS B SURFACE ANTIGEN; HEPATITIS VACCINE; IMMUNOGLOBULIN G; VIRUS DNA;

ADULT; ARTICLE; AWARENESS; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE MARKER; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE PERSONNEL; HEPATITIS B; HEPATITIS B VIRUS; HEPATITIS C VIRUS; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INDIA; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCREENING; SERODIAGNOSIS; TERTIARY HEALTH CARE; VACCINATION; VIRUS DETECTION;

EID: 56549093303     PISSN: 08159319     EISSN: 14401746     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1440-1746.2008.05483.x     Document Type: Article

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