A Review of Combined Hepatitis A and Hepatitis B Vaccination for Travelers

Clinical Therapeutics

Volumn 25, Issue 9, 2003, Pages 2337-2351

  Spira, Alan M ^a  

^a Travel Medicine Center   (United States)

Author keywords

Combination vaccine; Hepatitis A virus; Hepatitis B virus; Travel; Vaccine

Indexed keywords

HEPATITIS A VACCINE; HEPATITIS B VACCINE;

BEHAVIOR MODIFICATION; BODY FLUID; COMMUNITY CARE; DIARRHEA; DRUG DOSAGE FORM; DRUG EFFICACY; DRUG TOLERABILITY; ENDEMIC DISEASE; EVALUATION; EXPOSURE; FATIGUE; FOOD INTAKE; GENERAL PRACTITIONER; HEADACHE; HEPATITIS A; HEPATITIS B; HUMAN; MEDICAL LITERATURE; MEDICAL RESEARCH; NAUSEA; REVIEW; RISK FACTOR; SEXUAL INTERCOURSE; TRAVEL; VACCINATION; VIRUS TRANSMISSION;

EID: 0142075814     PISSN: 01492918     EISSN: 1879114X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0149-2918(03)80280-1     Document Type: Article

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