If you’re going to a country where hepatitis A is common and you’ve never had the virus or the vaccine, start the vaccination process as soon as you can. It takes 2-4 weeks after the first dose for the vaccine to work, but even one shot a few days before you leave will give y...
Eligible participants were healthy infants born at full-term pregnancy (≥ 37 weeks), with a ≥ 2.5 kg birth weight and age as defined by the vaccination schedule. Typical exclusion criteria were personal and/or maternal history of HIV, HB or hepatitis C infect...
Using a Markov state-transition model, this study determined the lifetime cost effectiveness of a 3-dose vaccination schedule, assuming a 10% failure rate. For a cohort of 50000 diabetic patients, hepatitisB vaccine would prevent 423 cases of chronic hepatitisB and 4.7 cases of HCC deaths over...