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Long-Term Protection against HBV Chronic Carriage of Gambian Adolescents Vaccinated in Infancy and Immune Response in HBV Booster Trial in Adolescence

BACKGROUND: Chronic infection with hepatitis B virus (HBV) arising in childhood is associated with hepatocellular carcinoma in adult life. Between 1986 and 1990, approximately 120,000 Gambian newborns were enrolled in a randomised controlled trial to assess the effectiveness of infant HBV vaccinatio...

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Autores principales: van der Sande, Marianne A.B., Waight, Pauline A., Mendy, Maimuna, Zaman, Syed, Kaye, Steve, Sam, Omar, Kahn, Abi, Jeffries, David, Akum, Aveika A., Hall, Andrew J., Bah, Ebrima, McConkey, Samuel J., Hainaut, Pierre, Whittle, Hilton C.
Formato: Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Public Library of Science 2007
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1940311/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/17710152
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0000753