Medical students' awareness of and compliance with the hepatitis B vaccine in a tertiary care academic hospital: An epidemiological study

• Main Authors: Firas A. Ghomraoui (Author), Faisal A. Alfaqeeh (Author), Abdulrahman S. Algadheeb (Author), Abdullah S. Al-alsheikh (Author), Waleed K. Al-Hamoudi (Author), Khalid A. Alswat (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: Elsevier, 2016-01-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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Summary: Background: The hepatitis B virus (HBV) poses a health risk to healthcare workers who are in close proximity to infected individuals. Medical students are a particularly high-risk group due to the lack of an obligatory vaccination program and a post-vaccination screening program to determin...