Incidence of occupational exposures in a tertiary health care center
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Occupational transmission and prevention of HBV among health care workers in a tertiary care center
Result 85 samples from health care workers who had needle stick injury were processed .The samples were from doctors (38%), nurses (20%), technicians (7%), housekeeping staff (23 %), and students (10%). All the samples of injured persons were found seronegative by both methods, anti-HBs titer was found to be protective. Conclusion Strict HBV vaccination program and monitoring the anti-HBs titer...
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عنوان ژورنال: Indian Journal of Sexually Transmitted Diseases and AIDS
سال: 2012
ISSN: 0253-7184
DOI: 10.4103/0253-7184.102111