Immigrants as part of their routine preimmigration health care evaluation (especially from endemic countries/developing countries) |
Nonvaccinated individuals whose parents were from HBV-endemic countries |
Household contacts of HBV carriers |
Sexual contacts of HBV carriers |
Persons with multiple sexual partners |
Men who have sex with men |
Persons who have used recreational or intravenous drugs |
Inmates |
Patients with chronic renal failure needing dialysis |
Patients with abnormal alanine aminotransferase/aspartate aminotransferase |
All pregnant women |
Patients needing immune modulation therapy or those who will develop immunosuppression such as cancer chemotherapy |