Waheeduz Zaman Tariq, Eijaz Ghani, Karamat Ahmed Karamat.
Hepatitis B in health care Personnel.
Pak Armed Forces Med J Jan ;50(1):56-7.

The exposure of health care personnel to blood, its products and carriers of Hepatitis B is much greater as compared to other segments of population. This study gives prevalence of past exposure and carrier state of HBV in health care personnel of our setup. It has been seen in our study that the nurses and laboratory workers are the worst affected. Two hundred and thirty one health care personnel (155 laboratory workers, 28 members of dental staff and 48 operation theatre staff) were tested for their ongoing HBV carrier state (HBsAg) and evidence for exposure to HBV in the past .Out of these 92 (39.8%) showed evidence of exposure to the virus in the past by being antiHBc positive .Out of the exposed persons 18 (7.7% of the total) were the HBsAg carriers and 61 (26.4%) had already developed immunity against the HBV by virtue of being anti-HBs positive.

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