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G Tarsitani

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[Anti-HBV vaccination and continuing education of health personnel: proposal for a priority index in various hospital units].

This work defines an "hazard index of unit" for the occupational transmission of the HBV to the aim to establish the priorities in the activity of promotion of the hepatitis B vaccine turned to health personnel. It has been estimated the prevalence of the potentiality infecting for the HBV in patients coming to various unit and the cover immunization against HBV in personnel and used the incidence of exposures to biological risk, always reported to the single units, found in the within of the activity of the Committee of Control of the Hospitals infections in our hospital. The analysis evidences three areas to risk: infectious diseases, general surgery and obstetrics and gynecology.

Containment of Biohazards↗

[Hygiene education in the Laureate Course of Dentistry and Dental Prosthetics: evaluation of student knowledge about the risk of infection in a dental practice environment].

Hygiene education for dental students is crucial in order to control and reduce the risk of infections in their future professional practices. The aim of this study was to evaluate the improvement in university students' knowledge of infectious disease prevention, dental instruments and environmental decontamination following the Course in Dental Hygiene and Prevention. 595 questionnaires were submitted to dental students at twelve Italian Universities; 335 were filled out before the Course began and 260 at the end of the same course. The students in both the PRE-course and at the POST-course evaluations demonstrated adequate knowledge regarding the transmission of infections in dental practices, knowledge improved following the Hygiene course.

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