Srisupanant M, Wiwanitkit V

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Editor, hepatitis B virus (HBV) infection is an important viral infection. Chronic HBV infection can result in a very serious complication, hepatoma. HBV serology is a basic screening test in laboratory medicine at present. Of several serological parameters, HBs Ag is the suggested parameter for HBV screening. Since this test is easily available, therefore, this serological test is accepted as standard for HBV detection at present. HBsAg is still widely used tool for screening for HBV in Thailand. The standard main recommendations for screening are antenatal test and blood banking test. However, there are also other recommendations including screening for the workers who want to go abroad. In this work, the authors summarize the authors studied of HBs Ag seropositivity in Thai workers going aboard from a tertiary hospital in Thailand. The data on the screening HBV serology in Thai workers going aboard who visited the laboratory of Rajvithi Hospital Bangkok during 1994 – 2001 was reviewed (More recent data is not available therefore not reviewed). The screening method in this study is standard HBsAg blood test. The annual and overall prevalence were calculated.

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