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Transient hepatitis B surface antigenemia after neonatal hepatitis B immunization
Author(s) -
Köksal N,
Altinkaya N,
Perk Y
Publication year - 1996
Publication title -
acta pædiatrica
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.772
H-Index - 115
eISSN - 1651-2227
pISSN - 0803-5253
DOI - 10.1111/j.1651-2227.1996.tb13961.x
Subject(s) - medicine , immunization , virology , hepatitis b , transient (computer programming) , hepatitis , immunology , antibody , computer science , operating system
Following immunization with hepatitis B vaccine, 39 infants were followed prospectively for hepatitis B surface antigen (HBsAg). A total of 69.2% of the infants tested positive for antigenemia at least once. Antigenemia was identified most often at 2–3 days (43.5 %) and 5–6 days (43.5 %) after immunization. The longest documented duration of antigenemia was 21 days. In all cases the antigenemia was transient and cleared by the 28th day post‐vaccination.