[Hepatitis B at the Dakar Dental School].
Numerous studies have revealed the personal risk of contamination of the virus hepatitis B (HBV). Dental surgeons are chiefly concerned about their almost continual contact, professionally, with blood and saliva. The authors report the results of a study done at the Dental Institute of Dakar. This study revealed the importance of AgHBS and its different functions during the period of observation. A particular point of this study is to emphasis subjects of serology, notably AgHBS+ Anti HBC-, which produce an alternative virus. This study, which is being followed up, has already enabled the commencement of disease prevention programmes of hepatitis through the vaccination of some students: protecting both the dental surgeons and their patients.
Larroque
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G
Institut d'Odontologie et de Stomatologie, Dakar, Sénégal.
Mboup
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S
Diop
R
R
Romieu
I
I
Ba
I
I
Faty Ndiaye
C
C
Badiane
M
M
D000328:Adult; D003815:Dentists; D006509:Hepatitis B / Q000453:epidemiology* / Q000517:prevention & control / Q000635:transmission; D006514:Hepatitis B Surface Antigens; D006801:Humans; D009784:Occupational Diseases; D012575:Schools, Dental; D012675:Senegal / Q000453:epidemiology; D013335:Students, Dental; D014761:Viral Hepatitis Vaccines
D006514:Hepatitis B Surface Antigens; D014761:Viral Hepatitis Vaccines
L'hepatite B a l'Ecole Dentaire de Dakar.