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ArticleHuman vaccines & immunotherapeutics2020

Hepatitis B vaccine development and implementation.

Hong Zhao, Xiaoying Zhou, Yi-Hua Zhou

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Article in Human vaccines & immunotherapeutics, 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 60 papers.

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

60 citing papers in PubMed, 120 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

3 authors at 3 institutions in 1 country.

Hong ZhaoDepartment of Infectious Diseases, The Second Hospital of Nanjing, School of Medicine, Southeast University , Nanjing, China.
Xiaoying ZhouDepartment of Internal Medicine, Zhongda Hospital, School of Medicine, Southeast University , Nanjing, China.
Yi-Hua ZhouDepartments of Laboratory Medicine and Infectious Diseases, Nanjing Drum Tower Hospital, Nanjing University Medical School , Nanjing, China.ORCID 0000-0001-8880-0392
Nanjing Drum Tower Hospital · CNNanjing Second Hospital · CNZhongda Hospital Southeast University · CN

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Vaccination against hepatitis B is the most effective strategy to control HBV infection. The first licensed hepatitis B vaccine was developed by the purification of hepatitis B surface antigen (HBsAg) from plasma of asymptomatic HBsAg carriers. Then, the recombinant DNA technology enabled the development of recombinant hepatitis B vaccine. A series of three doses vaccine can elicit long-term protection more than 30 y. Concurrent use of hepatitis B immunoglobulin and hepatitis B vaccine has substantially reduced the mother-to-child transmission of HBV, nearly zero infection in children of carrier mother with negative hepatitis B e antigen (HBeAg) and 5-10% infection in children of HBeAg-positive mothers. By the end of 2018, 189 countries adopted universal hepatitis B vaccination program, which has dramatically reduced the global prevalence of HBsAg in children <5 y of age, from 4.7% in the prevaccine era to 1.3% in 2015. However, the implementation of universal hepatitis B vaccination in some regions is suboptimal and timely birth dose vaccine is not routinely administered in more than half of newborn infants. Optimal worldwide universal hepatitis B vaccination requires more efforts to overcome the social and economic challenges.

Indexed as

Hepatitis BPregnancy Complications, InfectiousChildFemaleHepatitis B e AntigensHepatitis B Surface AntigensHepatitis B VaccinesHumansInfantInfant, NewbornInfectious Disease Transmission, VerticalPregnancyHepatitis B e AntigensHepatitis B Surface AntigensHepatitis B VaccinesHBsAg prevalenceHepatitis B vaccineuniversal vaccination program

Identifiers

PMID32186974
PMCPMC7482909
OpenAlexW3012501083

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