[Prevalence of serologic markers of hepatitis B among health and administrative staff at a general hospital of the Peruvian jungle].
A seroepidemiological assessment for Hepatitis B was performed in 199 workers, apparently healthy, of Hospital de Apoyo Iquitos of them were health care workers (representing 29.96% of health workers) and 42 were administrative personnel (22.82% of hospital's administrative personnel). We evaluated the HBsAg and anti-HBc IgG total by the microelisa technique. The total prevalence of HBsAg carriers was 3.36% and 20.1% of the anti-HBc; in the health group the 3.89% had HBsAg and the 16.88% anti-HBc, while the administrative group presented 2.38% of HBsAg and 26.19% the anti-HBc. There was no significative statistical difference between both groups. There was not either in the presence of the different studied epidemiological variables. We presume that it can exist a common epidemilogical factor which would conditioned a similarity of risk for infection in the health personnel as well the administrative personnel and even in the general population. If this find in other Amazon cities is confirmed, we could conclude that this represents a epidemilogical characteristic of the intermediate endemicity urban areas.
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D000328:Adult; D006510:Hepatitis B Antibodies / Q000097:blood*; D006514:Hepatitis B Surface Antigens / Q000097:blood*; D006769:Hospitals, General; D006801:Humans; D008875:Middle Aged; D010564:Personnel, Hospital; D010568:Peru; D012423:Rural Health
D006510:Hepatitis B Antibodies; D006514:Hepatitis B Surface Antigens
Prevalencia de marcadores serológicos de hepatitis B en personal de salud y administrativo de un hospital general de la selva del Perú.