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AFRICAN RESEARCH NEXUS
SHINING A SPOTLIGHT ON AFRICAN RESEARCH
medicine
Scheduling of revaccination against hepatitis B virus
The Lancet, Volume 337, No. 8751, Year 1991
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Description
Studies have shown that to maintain protection against infection after a primary course of hepatitis B immunisation, revaccination can be scheduled on the basis of an anti-hepatitis B virus surface antigen (anti-HBs) titre obtained 1 month after the booster dose. However, schemes which require post-booster testing may present practical difficulties. We applied a random-effects regression model to data from 118 Senegalese infants given three injections of hepatitis B vaccine about 6 weeks apart and a booster injection at 13 months, and show that revaccination can be scheduled on the basis of an anti-HBs titre recorded at the time of the booster dose. We also show that titre-at-booster is no less accurate in predicting future titre than 1-month post-booster titre. In several other studies the post-booster decline in anti-HBs conforms to the same mathematical description, indicating the generality of our findings. © 1991.
Authors & Co-Authors
Coursaget, Pierre L.
France, Tours
Université de Tours
Yvonnet, Bernard
France, Tours
Université de Tours
Chiron, Jeanpaul
France, Tours
Université de Tours
Gilks, Walter R.
United Kingdom, Cambridge
Mrc Biostatistics Unit
Day, Nicholas Edward
United Kingdom, Cambridge
Mrc Biostatistics Unit
Wang, C. C.
Taiwan, Taipei
Academia Sinica, Institute of Statistical Science
Diop-mar,
Senegal, Dakar
Universite Cheikh Anta Diop Faculte de Medecine et de Pharmacie
Statistics
Citations: 76
Authors: 7
Affiliations: 4
Identifiers
Doi:
10.1016/0140-6736(91)92857-X
ISSN:
01406736
Research Areas
Infectious Diseases