TABLE 2.

At-risk adults who are candidates for pre-exposure prophylaxis

Health care providers, including dentists and staff, and emergency service workers

Household and sexual contacts of acute hepatitis B virus (HBV) cases and known HBV carriers, including those with daily close contact in child care settings

Residents and staff of institutions for the developmentally challenged

Injection drug users

Men having sexual contact with men

Those who have unprotected sex with multiple new partners or with a history of sexually transmitted infections

Hemophiliacs and others receiving repeated infusions of blood or blood products

Hemodialysis patients (40 μg of vaccine antigen per dose should be used)

Diabetic adults

Staff and inmates of correctional facilities

Populations or communities in which HBV is highly endemic

Travellers to hepatitis B-endemic areas