To study the effect of postexposure vaccination, four chimpanzees were vaccinated with hepatitis B (HB) vaccine 4, 8, 48, and 72 hr, respectively, after intravenous injection of an infectious hepatitis B virus (HBV) inoculum. The second and third vaccine inoculations were given 2 and 6 weeks later,
Vaccination against hepatitis B — The current situation
✍ Scribed by W. Jilg; F. Deinhardt
- Publisher
- Springer-Verlag
- Year
- 1986
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 273 KB
- Volume
- 14
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0300-8126
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