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| CDC Guidance for Evaluating Health-Care Personnel for Hepatitis B Virus Protection and for Administering Postexposure Management |
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| Hepatitis B (HBV) has long been recognized as an occupational risk for health-care personnel (HCP), including HCP trainees. The virus remains infectious for prolonged periods on environmental surfaces and is transmissible in the absence of visible blood. HCP do not recognize all exposures to potentially infectious blood or body fluids and even if exposures are recognized, often do not seek postexposure prophylactic management for recognized exposures. In serologic studies conducted in the United States during the 1970s, HCP had a prevalence of HBV infection approximately 10 times greater than the general population. This report provides CDC guidance for persons working, training, or volunteering in health-care settings who have documented HepB vaccination years before hire or matriculation (e.g., when HepB vaccination was received as part of routine infant [recommended since 1991] or catch-up adolescent [recommended since 1995] vaccination). |
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