[Screening and vaccination against hepatitis B among health personnel. Short-term results]

Minerva Med. 1987 Apr 30;78(8):537-42.
[Article in Italian]

Abstract

In the framework of the campaign for anti-HBV vaccination conducted by the Regione Piemonte, the Mauriziano Hospital in Valenza and the Unità Sanitaria Locale 71, screened and then vaccinated a group of 199 medical workers at risk of HBV. It was found that the infection was asymptomatic in the vaccinated subjects (16%) and the chronic HBsAg carriers (1.5%), that the risk of infection increases with age (p less than 0.01) and length of service (p less than 0.05) and that there is a connection with the mean figures produced by other studies conducted on hospital staff. Vaccination gave satisfactory results, with protective antibody responses in 87% of the cases, of whom about half presented levels over 1000 mIU/ml and no significant side effects.

Publication types

  • English Abstract

MeSH terms

  • Adult
  • Aged
  • Carrier State / epidemiology
  • Evaluation Studies as Topic
  • Female
  • Hepatitis B / epidemiology
  • Hepatitis B / prevention & control*
  • Hepatitis B Vaccines
  • Humans
  • Italy
  • Male
  • Mass Screening*
  • Middle Aged
  • Personnel, Hospital*
  • Viral Hepatitis Vaccines / administration & dosage*

Substances

  • Hepatitis B Vaccines
  • Viral Hepatitis Vaccines