Immunologic pattern of hepatitis B infection among exposed and non-exposed babies in A PMTCT program in low resource setting: Does every exposed newborn require 200IU of hepatitis B immunoglobulin?

Journal of Vaccines and Vaccination

Volumn 4, Issue 7, 2013, Pages

  Onakewhor, J U E ^a,b   Charurat, M ^b   Matthew, O ^c   Osagie, Esosa ^a   Asemota, M O ^a   Omoigberale, A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BENIN   (Nigeria)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c INSTITUTE OF HUMAN VIROLOGY NIGERIA   (Nigeria)

Author keywords

HBIG; Hepatitis B; Immunology; MTCT; PMTCT; Seromarkers

Indexed keywords

EID: 84886651563     PISSN: None     EISSN: 21577560     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4172/2157-7560.1000207     Document Type: Article

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