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Management of Health Care Workers Remotely Vaccinated for Hepatitis B Who Sustain Significant Blood and Body Fluid Exposures

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  21 June 2016

Michael B. Snyder
Michael B. Snyder*
Affiliation:
Division of Infectious Diseases and Hospital Epidemiology, Henry Ford Hospital, Detroit, Michigan
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Division of Infectious Diseases and Hospital Epidemiology, Henry Ford Hospital, 2799 West Grand Boulevard, Detroit, MI 48202
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The availability of both plasma-derived and recombinant hepatitis B vaccines has given hospitals and other health care institutions the possibility of significantly reducing a major infectious hazard in the workplace. With the increasing use and acceptance of these vaccines, many employees who have a significant blood or body fluid exposure (percutaneous or mucous membrane) have already completed hepatitis B vaccination. Concerns have arisen over the duration of protection of vaccination, as it has been over five years since the introduction of the plasma-derived vaccine.

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Infection Control & Hospital Epidemiology , Volume 9 , Issue 10 , October 1988 , pp. 462 - 464
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Copyright © The Society for Healthcare Epidemiology of America 1988

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