"Engerix B Vaccination in Children with Malignant Diseases."

According to an abstract submitted by the authors to the conference entitles Acute Leukemias VIII: Prognostic Factors and Treatment Strategies, held February 27 - March 3, 1999, in Munster, Germany, "Hepatitis B in Russia isn't a rare infection and infants have not been vaccinated. The risk of exposure in immunocompromised hosts is 5-25 times higher than of healthy or somatic patients. In the regional Children's hospital in Chelyabinsk, HBV infection or mixed has been diagnosed in 37% of the immunocompromised patients with chronic aggressive hepatitis and cirrhosis. It was the reason to start a prospective study conducted to evaluate the response to vaccination in our clinic without,...

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