Immunization

Study of Young Adults Finds Combined Hepatitis A and B Vaccine Effective

Published in Vaccine Weekly, December 27th, 2000

Young adults can be effectively immunized by combined hepatitis A and B vaccines, authors of a new study conducted in Taiwan have proposed.

This finding is the result of a comparative study of 80 young adults, between the ages of 16 and 35, who were given a combination hepatitis A and B vaccine, or two separate vaccines, one against hepatitis A virus (HAV) and one against hepatitis B virus (HBV).

I.J. Tsai of the National Taiwan University Hospital, along with colleagues in the Department of Pediatrics, described how the experiment was carried out.

"One group received the combined hepatitis A and B vaccine (HAB) in one arm while...

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