Response to hepatitis-B vaccination in healthy homosexual individuals: Retrospective case control study

Vaccine

Volumn 21, Issue 25-26, 2003, Pages 3701-3705

  Das, Satyajit ^a   Brassington, Mary ^b   Drake, Susan M ^b   Boxall, Elizabeth ^b  

^a Whittall Street Clinic ^*  (United Kingdom)

^b BIRMINGHAM HEARTLANDS HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Case control study; Hepatitis B vaccination; Homosexual individuals

Indexed keywords

HEPATITIS B VACCINE; RECOMBINANT VACCINE;

ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FOLLOW UP; HEALTH CARE PERSONNEL; HEALTH PROGRAM; HEPATITIS B; HEPATITIS B VIRUS; HOMOSEXUALITY; HUMAN; MALE; MEDICAL RESEARCH; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; REVACCINATION; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; VACCINATION;

EID: 0242317705     PISSN: 0264410X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0264-410X(03)00392-X     Document Type: Article

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