Sivarajasingam V, Ogden G R
Department of Dental Surgery and Periodontology, Dundee Dental Hospital.
Br Dent J. 1995 Feb 11;178(3):105-7. doi: 10.1038/sj.bdj.4808662.
It is now generally acknowledged that all health care workers should be vaccinated against hepatitis B. To this end, a questionnaire was sent to 132 clinical dental students and 70 staff in August 1993 at a British dental hospital, to assess their vaccination status. Approximately 10% of subjects had not completed their course of immunisation. Furthermore a significant number of subjects had failed to follow up their vaccination by an antibody titre test. Our results suggest that approximately 1 in 7 cases failed to seroconvert, emphasising that mere vaccination may not offer sufficient protection against hepatitis B. Thus adequate cross-infection control measures must be maintained in the interest of all patients.
现在人们普遍认为，所有医护人员都应接种乙肝疫苗。为此，1993年8月在一家英国牙科医院向132名临床牙科学生和70名工作人员发放了一份调查问卷，以评估他们的疫苗接种状况。约10%的受试者尚未完成免疫疗程。此外，相当数量的受试者未通过抗体滴度检测对其疫苗接种情况进行跟进。我们的结果表明，约七分之一的病例未能产生血清转化，这强调了仅仅接种疫苗可能无法提供足够的乙肝防护。因此，为了所有患者的利益，必须维持适当的交叉感染控制措施。
