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. 2012 Dec;26(12):917–938. doi: 10.1155/2012/506819

TABLE 3.

High-risk individuals who should be screened for chronic hepatitis B virus (HBV)

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