Is fragmentation of schedules hampering the uptake of hepatitis B vaccine?
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Immunogenicity of two different hepatitis B vaccine schedules
A letter by Rashmi Ranjan Das et al. was recently published in Infection in which the authors commented on our article entitled ‘‘Immunogenicity of recombinant hepatitis B vaccine: comparison of two different vaccination schedules’’ [1]. We would like to take the opportunity provided by this letter to discuss our findings in particular and hepatitis B epidemiology in Turkey in general. The stud...
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عنوان ژورنال: Archives of Disease in Childhood
سال: 2005
ISSN: 0003-9888,1468-2044
DOI: 10.1136/adc.2004.061952