Online ISSN: 2515-8260

Knowledge, attitude and practice towards Hepatitis-B disease and vaccine among health care workers and medical students of tertiary care center

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1Dr. Ravishankar P Shivshette, 2Dr. Yallapa U Jadhav, 3Dr. Varsha V Kendre, 4Dr. Muralidhar P Tambe, 5Dr. Ganesh Jagadale

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Hepatitis B viral disease is highly infectious and once infected, the individual remains lifelong infected. There is no complete cure at present, so prevention is the mainstay of treatment. Being transmitted through the parenteral route, health care workers, medical students, pregnant mothers, and newborn babies are particularly at risk of the diseases.

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