Comparison of the accelerated and standard vaccination schedules against hepatitis B in healthcare workers

Keyghobad Ghadiri, Siavash Vaziri, Mandana Afsharian, Alireza Jahanbaksh, Faizolah Mansouri, Babak Sayad, Farid Najafi, Bahram Souri

Abstract


  • BACKGROUND: For healthcare workers, sometimes the conventional hepatitis-B virus (HBV) vaccination schedule might not provide seroconversion rapidly enough. The aim of this study was to compare the efficacy of conventional HBV vaccination with an accelerated schedule (days 0-1-21).

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