Screening of Anti-Hepatitis B Titers in Staffs of Hashtrood Imam Hossein Hospital, Iran. 2015

Infection with Hepatitis B virus has been spreading worldwide and it has different prevalence rate in different countries. Nowadays, over 350 million people are carriers of surface antigen of hepatitis B in worldwide. On the other hand, health care worker take place in high risk in infection and carriage of virus. Therefore, the present study has been conducted to demonstrate the immune level of individual among personnel of Hashtrood Imam Khomeini hospital.
This study is descriptive one that carried out upon 130 medical staff personnel of our hospital who injected hepatitis B vaccine for 3 times. Antibody titration was done by ELISA method. The results, based on antibody levels, were divided into 3 groups of ≤ 10, 11100, and > 100 (mlu/ml). Sampling process was simple (available method). Demographic and infectious diseases background was collected and finally, the data was processed by SPSS software.
Seven % of cases had less than 10mIu/ml antibody titer, 50 % in 11-100mIu/ml, and 43% had more than 100mIu/ml. The results of static analysis showed that immunization level had not significant relationship with demographic data and type of infectious disease.
Regarding to high risk for infection by hepatitis B virus among personnel of medical staffs, it is necessary to identify unimmunized personnel in order to control hospital infections.