Hepatitis B Virus Vaccine
High thymopentin doses improves hepatitis B vaccine seroresponse rate in dialysis patients
Published in Vaccine Weekly, July 26th, 2006
"It has been calculated that 30-40% of dialysis patients fail to produce antibodies to HBsAg antigen after vaccination towards hepatitis B virus. Several authors have reported on the benefit of thymopentin (TP5) as adjuvant to vaccine against hepatitis B virus in patients receiving regular dialysis.
"However, consistent information on this issue is still lacking," scientists writing in the journal Alimentary Pharmacology & Therapeutics report.
F. Fabrizi and colleagues at IRCCS in Milan conducted a...
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Source: Vaccine Weekly (2006-07-26)
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