Hepatitis B Vaccine: Demonstration of Efficacy in a Controlled Clinical Trial in a High-Risk Population in the United States

New England Journal of Medicine

Volumn 303, Issue 15, 1980, Pages 833-841

  Szmuness, Wolf ^a   Stevens, Cladd E ^a   Harley, Edward J ^a   Zang, Edith A ^a   Oleszko, William R ^a   William, Daniel C ^a   Sadovsky, Richard ^a   Morrison, John M ^a   Kellner, Aaron ^a  

^a Columbia University School of Public Health ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HEPATITIS B SURFACE ANTIGEN; HEPATITIS B VACCINE; PLACEBO;

CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DRUG EFFICACY; HEPATITIS B; HIGH RISK POPULATION; HOMOSEXUALITY; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; PRELIMINARY COMMUNICATION; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; THERAPY; VACCINATION;

ADULT; CLINICAL TRIALS; DOUBLE-BLIND METHOD; HEPATITIS A; HEPATITIS B; HEPATITIS B ANTIBODIES; HEPATITIS B SURFACE ANTIGENS; HOMOSEXUALITY; HUMANS; MALE; RANDOM ALLOCATION; UNITED STATES; VACCINATION; VIRAL VACCINES;

EID: 0018956669     PISSN: 00284793     EISSN: 15334406     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1056/NEJM198010093031501     Document Type: Article

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