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2004 SEP 1 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- An inactivated hepatitis A vaccine was effective in children with chronic liver disease.
"One and 6 months after vaccination with hepatitis A virus vaccine (HAVRIX 720 Junior), immunologic responses (anti-hepatitis A virus >/=20 mIU/mL) in children with chronic hepatitis C infection seroprotection were 92% (23/25) and 75% (9/12) in children with chronic hepatitis B infection 87% (21/24) and 88% (15/17) and in healthy children 91% (20/22) at both times," scientists writing in the Pediatric Infectious Disease Journal report.
"A booster dose induced seroprotection in all children," stated Ewa Majda-Stanislawska and colleagues at the Medical University of Lodz in Poland.
Majda-Stanislawska and associates published their study in the Pediatric Infectious Disease Journal (Immunogenicity of inactivated ...