Abstract：
:Hepatitis B has long been a serious public health problem in Greece. In recent years, a decline in hepatitis B infection is observed ascribable to many factors such as demographic and socioeconomic changes, medical precautions, use of disposable medical equipments, screening of blood donors and vaccination. We studied the prevalence of HBV infection in a sample of 1050 Greek male Navy recruits. 343 subjects (32.6%) had previously been vaccinated and were anti-HBs positive. We observed that during the last decade, the prevalence of immunes declined to 1.33% and the prevalence of any HBV marker declined to 2.28%. The HBsAg carrier rate declined from 3.9% in 1973 to 0.9% in 1986. Since then, it is stable at 0.95% because perinatal and vertical transmissions are still responsible for the majority of HBV chronic infections. Universal prenatal screening and infant immunization will contribute to a further decline of HBV infection.
journal_name
Eur J Epidemioljournal_title
European journal of epidemiologyauthors
Stamouli M,Gizaris V,Totos G,Papaevangelou Gdoi
10.1023/a:1007539517341keywords:
subject
Has Abstractpub_date
1999-05-01 00:00:00pages
447-9issue
5eissn
0393-2990issn
1573-7284journal_volume
15pub_type
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