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Hepatitis B virus infection, its sequelae, and prevention by vaccination by Li-Min Huang; Chun-Yi Lu; Ding-Shinn Chen is a Immunology and Microbiology article available to read on EtoBox.

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## Hepatitis B virus (HBV) infection is a global health problem. There are >350 million of people chronically infected with this virus worldwide. Hepatitis B vaccines are effective in preventing the infection. Humoral immunity is the key factor in conferring the protection. Hepatitis B surface antibody titers of 10 mIU/mL are protective. Chronic carriage of HBV is related to the age when the infection occurs, the younger the age the higher the chronicity rate. Hence, vaccination should be given in early childhood. People vaccinated in infancy have a protection of >20 years, and hepatocellular carcinoma decreases in them. Although the vaccine-conferred immunity wanes by time, a universal booster is not recommended at present.

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Author

Li-Min Huang; Chun-Yi Lu; Ding-Shinn Chen

Publisher

Elsevier Science; Elsevier ; Elsevier BV (ISSN 0952-7915)

Published

2011

Language

EN

Field

Immunology and Microbiology (Life Sciences)