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- Title
Long-term Protection After Hepatitis B Vaccine.
- Authors
Van Damme, Pierre
- Abstract
The author comments on a study by M. G. Bruce and colleagues published within the issue about long-term protection after hepatitis B vaccine. Topics covered the prolonged duration of protection and immune memory against hepatitis B, evidence that the immune memory may begin to wane after the second decade of vaccination, and association between protection against disease and immune memory.
- Subjects
HEPATITIS B vaccines; IMMUNOLOGIC memory; IMMUNITY; HEPATITIS B virus; IMMUNE system; COMPARATIVE studies; HEPATITIS B; IMMUNIZATION; RESEARCH methodology; MEDICAL cooperation; RESEARCH; VIRAL antibodies; VIRAL antigens; EVALUATION research
- Publication
Journal of Infectious Diseases, 2016, Vol 214, Issue 1, p1
- ISSN
0022-1899
- Publication type
editorial
- DOI
10.1093/infdis/jiv750