Immunity to hepatitis B virus (HBV) infection two decades after implementation of universal infant HBV vaccination: Association of detectable residual antibodies and response to a single HBV challenge dose

Clinical and Vaccine Immunology

Volumn 20, Issue 4, 2013, Pages 559-561

  Spradling, Philip R ^a   Xing, Jian ^a   Williams, Roxanne ^a   Masunu Faleafaga, Yolanda ^b   Dulski, Theresa ^c   Mahamud, Abdirahman ^a   Drobeniuc, Jan ^a   Teshale, Eyasu H ^a  

^a CENTERS FOR DISEASE CONTROL AND PREVENTION   (United States)

^b American Samoa Department of Health   (American Samoa)

^c EMORY UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HEPATITIS B SURFACE ANTIBODY; HEPATITIS B VACCINE; RECOMBINANT HEPATITIS B VACCINE;

ADULT; ANTIBODY DETECTION; ANTIBODY TITER; ARTICLE; COLLEGE STUDENT; FEMALE; HEPATITIS B; HEPATITIS B VIRUS; HUMAN; IMMUNE RESPONSE; IMMUNOLOGICAL MEMORY; INFANCY; INFANT; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; VIRUS IMMUNITY;

ADOLESCENT; FEMALE; HEPATITIS B ANTIBODIES; HEPATITIS B SURFACE ANTIGENS; HEPATITIS B VACCINES; HUMANS; IMMUNIZATION, SECONDARY; IMMUNOLOGIC MEMORY; INFANT; MALE; STUDENTS; TIME FACTORS; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84876479091     PISSN: 15566811     EISSN: 1556679X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/CVI.00694-12     Document Type: Article

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