Immunization

Young Children In Argentina Demonstrate Immune Response To Inactivated HAV Vaccine

Published in Hepatitis Weekly, March 12th, 2001

by Sonia Nichols, staff medical writer -- Researchers at a children's hospital in Argentina report children are appropriately protected by an inactivated hepatitis A vaccine.

To prevent hepatitis A virus (HAV) transmission in areas where the disease is highly endemic, public health officials often recommend vaccinating children, who frequently serve as reservoirs for the virus.

E.L. Lopez and others at the Ricardo Gutierrez Hospital for Children in Buenos Aires examined the effects of giving children, 12-months to 15-years-old, half-strength dosages of an adult inactivated hepatitis A vaccine. Five hundred and thirty children received two doses of...

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