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* People providing or receiving acupuncture and/or tattooing with unsterile medical devices | * People providing or receiving acupuncture and/or tattooing with unsterile medical devices | ||
* Persons living in regions or travelling to regions with endemic hepatitis B | * Persons living in regions or travelling to regions with endemic hepatitis B | ||
* | * Sexually active heterosexuals | ||
* | * Men who have sex with men | ||
* | * Hemophilia patients | ||
* Travel to areas where hepatitis B is common | |||
*Travel to areas where hepatitis B is common | |||
Frequent and routine exposure to [[blood]] or [[serum]] is the common denominator of healthcare occupational exposure. | |||
Frequent and routine exposure to blood or serum is | |||
the common denominator of healthcare occupational | |||
exposure. | |||
== References == | == References == |
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Editor-In-Chief: C. Michael Gibson, M.S., M.D. [1]; Associate Editor(s)-in-Chief: João André Alves Silva, M.D. [2]
Overview
Risk Factors
Individuals who are at increased risk of hepatitis B infection include:
- Infants born to infected mothers
- Young children in day-care or residential settings with other children in endemic areas
- Sexual/household contacts of infected persons
- Patients and employees in haemodialysis centres
- Injection drug users sharing unsterile needles
- People sharing unsterile medical or dental equipment
- People providing or receiving acupuncture and/or tattooing with unsterile medical devices
- Persons living in regions or travelling to regions with endemic hepatitis B
- Sexually active heterosexuals
- Men who have sex with men
- Hemophilia patients
- Travel to areas where hepatitis B is common
Frequent and routine exposure to blood or serum is the common denominator of healthcare occupational exposure.