Blood Banking/HBV Vaccine

Donors Recently Vaccinated Should Be Temporarily Deferred Due to Transient HBsAg

Published in Vaccine Weekly, July 3rd, 1995

Blood collection centers should consider temporarily deferring potential donors who recently received hepatitis B vaccine.

Individuals who have recently been vaccinated for hepatitis B may test positive for hepatitis B surface antigen (HBsAg) and, based on such a test result, become disqualified permanently from donating blood, indicated Bruce E. Kloster, M.D., State University of New York, and colleagues ("Hepatitis B Surface Antigenemia in Blood Donors," Transfusion, June 1995;35(6):475-477).

Kloster et al. reported positive test results for HBsAg in nine adults who donated blood from one to three days after vaccination with Engerix B (SmithKline...

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