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a seroepidemiological study of hepatitis b amongst fiji health care workers.hepatitis b immunization for health care workers is common policy in many countries where they constitute a particular at risk group. a seroepidemiological study of hepatitis b virus (hbv) in fiji health care workers was conducted to determine whether this occupational group (or subgroups thereof) were at higher risk of infection than the general fiji population. the purpose of this study was to ascertain whether health staff should be immunized, or whether it would be more productive to focus r ...19911820646
seroepidemiology of infection with hepatitis b virus in fiji.a batch of 984 sera obtained from a stratified sample of melanesians and indians living in rural and urban areas of fiji in 1981 were for hepatitis b surface antigen (hbsag) and antibody to hepatitis b core antigen (anti-hbc) by solid phase radioimmunoassay. the prevalence of hepatitis b infection (as measured by the sum of hbsag and anti-hbc frequencies of hbsag negative sera in the two groups) was 81.5% and 17.9%, respectively. no major differences were detected between urban and rural populat ...19827137148
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