Travel Medicine

Travelers' Vaccines Don't Impair Immune Response to Hepatitis A Immunization, and Vice Versa

Published in Vaccine Weekly, May 3rd, 2000

Traveling abroad often means first traveling to the doctor to be immunized against various diseases. What is the effect of multiple vaccines on the immune response'

Researchers at pharmaceutical company Smithkline Beecham Biologicals, Belgium, addressed one part of that question, looking at the possibility that immunization with a hepatitis A vaccine might affect the immune response to other concurrently administered travelers' vaccines.

H.L. Bock and coworkers measured antibody levels in 396 subjects who were vaccinated against hepatitis A and either polio, hepatitis B, diphtheria, tetanus, yellow fever, Japanese encephalitis, typhoid fever, or...

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