The necessity of booster vaccination after neonatal hepatitis B vaccination.
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...This has increased utilization of this life saving procedure, especially in children, patients from lower socioeconomic classes, and those residing in more distant parts of the country (14)....
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...The effectiveness of this strategy has been shown by several investigators in reducing the incidence of HBV carrier rate and probably cirrhosis and hepatocellular carcinoma (1, 2, 5-7)....
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...2011;11(6):419-421 420 Booster and neonatal hepatitis B vaccination Lankarani KB...
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...Some problems such as maintaining cold chain in transportation and handling of vaccine, improper injection and other technical problems in this context are still real challenges in many countries making effectiveness of vaccination, like HBV which need a stable cold chain, lower than expected in real practice (2, 5, 8, 9)....
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...None of the international guidelines for HBV vaccination currently recommend booster dose (1-3, 5, 8, 9)....
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...bers) and vertically (2, 8, 9) that leads to WHO recommendation regarding implementation of neonatal vaccination against HBV within the first 24 hours of life (5, 9)....
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...There could be many confounding factors including malnutrition, concomitant diseases or even receiving vaccine in bad techniques such as inappropriate handling of vaccine including stable and sustained the cold chain (8, 9, 16, 24, 25)....
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...Although this level was initially determined in studies about passive prophylaxis of HBV infection, the same level was arbitrary applied to active immunization though this was debated by some researchers (8-10)....
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