Failure of vaccination against hepatitis B with Gen H-B-Vax-D in immunosuppressed heart transplant recipients

✍ Scribed by Wagner, D. ;Wagenbreth, I. ;Stachan-Kunstyr, R. ;Flik, J.

• Book ID: 104654966
• Publisher: Springer-Verlag
• Year: 1992
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 283 KB
• Volume: 70
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 1432-1440
• DOI: 10.1007/bf00184798

✦ Synopsis

Some 86 heart transplant recipients under immunosuppressive therapy were vaccinated against hepatitis B using the vaccine Gen H-B-Vax-D, but 95.3% failed to develop protective levels of HBs-specific antibody (more than 10 U/l) after the third vaccination.