Hepatitis B vaccines are highly effective and safe and have been incorporated into national immunization programs in over 150 countries. The major humoral immune response is to the common a determinant of the surface antigen protein of the virus. Approximately 5-10% of healthy immunocompetent subjec
Safety and efficacy of neonatal vaccination
β Scribed by Alicia Demirjian; Ofer Levy
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons
- Year
- 2008
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 166 KB
- Volume
- 39
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0014-2980
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