Chronic hepatitis B in 2014: Great therapeutic progress, large diagnostic deficit

Table 2 Vaccination recommendations for risk groups[1,35,70]

i.v., drug users

Potential household and sexual contacts with HBV infected people

Subjects frequently requiring blood products, dialysis patients

Patients with organ transplantation

People who are in prisons and correctional facilities for a longer time

People with multiple sexual partners and men who have sex with men

Health-care workers with frequent blood contact

Travellers who are go to highly endemic regions often or for longer time intervals

Clients and staff at institutions for the developmentally disabled

Persons with a history of sexually transmitted infection (STI)

Person without immunoprotection who undergo chemotherapy or immunosuppressive therapy

HBV: Hepatitis B virus.