Serosurveillance of First Year Military Personnel for Hepatitis A and B

Abstract

The US military utilizes a number of vaccines as strategic medical countermeasures, mandating immunizations in personnel against common infectious diseases, as well as special immunizations against rare and weaponized agents. Important among the former are the vaccines against hepatitis A and B, which the military requires of all military accessions into service. While the Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices (ACIP) does not explicitly recommend hepatitis A and B vaccination for military personnel, the military's rationale for preexposure prophylaxis is based on the likelihood that active duty military personnel may encounter populations for which ACIP does recommend vaccination, and work in countries that have high or intermediate endemicity of hepatitis.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Sep 07, 2018
Accession Number
AD1060801

Entities

People

  • Dennis J. Faix
  • Michael P. Broderick
  • Noele P. Nelson
  • Saleem Kamili
  • Sandra Romero-steiner
  • Thao Le

Organizations

  • Naval Health Research Center

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Biomedical

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Antigens
  • Department Of Defense
  • Department Of Veterans Affairs
  • Diseases And Disorders
  • First Responders
  • Governments
  • Health
  • Hepatitis
  • Hygiene
  • Immunization
  • Infectious Diseases
  • Medical Countermeasures
  • Medical Personnel
  • Military Personnel
  • Public Health
  • United States Government
  • Vaccines

Readers

  • Defense Acquisition Program Management
  • Infectious Disease/Epidemiology
  • Personnel Management and Statistics in the Military and Department of Defense

Technology Areas

  • Biotechnology