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Hepatitis B in a hospital for the mentally subnormal in South Wales
Author(s) -
McGREGOR M. A.,
COWIE V. A.,
WASSEF K.,
VEASEY D.,
MUNRO J.
Publication year - 1988
Publication title -
journal of intellectual disability research
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.941
H-Index - 104
eISSN - 1365-2788
pISSN - 0964-2633
DOI - 10.1111/j.1365-2788.1988.tb01390.x
Subject(s) - carriage , medicine , mass vaccination , population , pediatrics , vaccination , hepatitis b , virology , environmental health , pathology
. The resident population in a long‐stay hospital for the mentally handicapped was surveyed in order to assess evidence for past and present infection with the Hepatitis B virus. The authors found a 0.5% prevalence of carriage of Hepatitis B c Antigen and do not recommend mass vaccination of staff and residents in this hospital.