High level of vaccination and protection against hepatitis B with low rate of HCV infection markers among hospital health care personnel in north of Iran: a cross-sectional study

• Main Authors: Saffar Hiva (Author), Khoshayand Negar (Author), Parsaei Mohammad-Reza (Author), Ghorbani Gholam-Reza (Author), Aarabi Mohsen (Author), Nadi Ghara Ali-Asghar (Author), Saffar Mohammed-Jafar (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: BMC, 2020-06-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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Abstract Background hepatitis B virus (HBV) and C virus (HCV) are among the leading causes of mortality worldwide. Health care personnel (HCP) are subjected to increased risk of these infections. Therefore, HBV vaccination and post-vaccination serologic testing (PVST) are recommended for them. Our o...