Immunology

Family Exposure To Hepatitis B Yields Faster Vaccine Immunity

Published in Vaccine Weekly, October 10th, 2001

by Sonia Nichols, senior medical writer - Somehow, exposure to family members with chronic hepatitis B increases the rate at which other family members become immune to the virus after vaccination, investigators in Italy report.

According to V. Thakur and coworkers at G.B. Pant Hospital in New Delhi, India, hepatitis B virus (HBV) vaccination in exposed family members appears to boost the memory of their immune systems, causing those systems to respond faster than they ordinarily would have following immunization. Because some exposed family members also harbored HBV DNA that disappeared after vaccination, researchers also described immunization as being...

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Source: Vaccine Weekly (2001-10-10)

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