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 of hepatitis B vaccines
β Scribed by Arie J. Zuckerman
- Book ID
- 119376545
- Publisher
- Elsevier Science
- Year
- 2004
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 82 KB
- Volume
- 2
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 1477-8939
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