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

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 determi...

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Main Authors: Firas A. Ghomraoui, Faisal A. Alfaqeeh, Abdulrahman S. Algadheeb, Abdullah S. Al-alsheikh, Waleed K. Al-Hamoudi, Khalid A. Alswat
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Elsevier 2016-01-01
Series:Journal of Infection and Public Health
Online Access:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1876034115001331