HBV Vaccines
"Immune Status and the Immune Response to Hepatitis B Virus Vaccine in Thalassemic Patients after Allogeneic Bone Marrow Transplantation."
Published in Vaccine Weekly, March 10th, 1997
According to the authors' abstract of an article published in Bone Marrow Transplantation, "We evaluated the immune status with respect to HBV and the immune response to readministration of HBV vaccine in a series of 20 patients with homozygous beta-thalassemia, aged 6-23 years (mean age: 13.0 ± 4.2) who had undergone allogeneic bone marrow transplantation (BMT). Thirteen of them (group A), had received three doses of plasma-derived HBV vaccine from 7 to 5 years before BMT and 4-5 weeks after the last dose of vaccine, they had had high serum levels of HBV antibodies (anti-HBs). The remaining seven patients (group B) had had clinical symptoms and laboratory evidence of HBV...
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Source: Vaccine Weekly (1997-03-10)
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