National Academy of Agricultural Sciences (NAAS)
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PRINT ISSN : 2319-7692
Online ISSN : 2319-7706 Issues : 12 per year Publisher : Excellent Publishers Email : editorijcmas@gmail.com / submit@ijcmas.com Editor-in-chief: Dr.M.Prakash Index Copernicus ICV 2018: 95.39 NAAS RATING 2020: 5.38 |
Healthcare workers are at a high risk of occupational exposure to many blood-borne diseases including HIV, Hepatitis B, Hepatitis C viral infections. Of these, only Hepatitis B infection is vaccine preventable. This study was conducted to determine the seroprevalence of Hepatitis B virus infection and to determine the anti HBs antibody titres among the health care workers. A descriptive cross sectional study was conducted among 52 health care workers of a clinical laboratory. HBsAg detection and anti HBs titre were measured using commercially available ELISA and ELFA kits respectively. Only 34.62% of the participants were completely vaccinated with 3 doses of vaccines and they had attained protective antibody levels of >10 mIU/ml. The remaining participants were either not immune or had low antibody levels of <10 mIU/ml. A significant number of health care workers are unvaccinated suggesting the need for proactive implementation of HBV vaccination programme.
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