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Infectiousness with respect to HBV of medical staff and patients in the General Hospital, Kuala Lumpur

Ton SH 1 , Lopez CG 2 , Cheong KS 3 , Noriah R 4

Affiliations 

  • 1 S H Ton. MSc. PhD. Department of Biochemlstry, Faculty of Medicine, Universiti Kebangsaan, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
  • 2 C G Lopez, MBBS, DCP, FRCPA. National Blood Services Centre, General Hospital, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
  • 3 K S Cheong, MBBS, MRCP. Department of Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, Universiti Kebangsaan, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
  • 4 R Norlah, Med Lab Tech. Department of Biochemlstry, Faculty of Medicine, Universiti Kebangsaan, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
Singapore Med J, 1984 Aug;25(4):244-6.
PMID: 6505725

Abstract

The infectiousness with regard to HBV Infection of staff and patients in various units of the General Hospital, Kuala Lumpur
was assessed. It was found that all units, with the exception of the obstetric unit, were equally high risk areas. At least 50% of the patients in all these units had one or more of the markers. Among the medical staff, the anaesthetists had the highest
incidence of HBV markers (100%) while medical officers who had worked for three years or more were more likely to have to
have the HBV markers. The degree of infectiousness of the nurses In HDU and ICU/OT was found to be similar.

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