Assessment of the HBV vaccine response in a group of HIV-infected children in Morocco

• Main Authors: Houda Haban (Author), Soumia Benchekroun (Author), Mina Sadeq (Author), Abdelaziz Benjouad (Author), Said Amzazi (Author), Hicham Oumzil (Author), Elmir Elharti (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: BMC, 2017-09-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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Abstract Background Since its development in the early 1980s, Hepatitis B virus (HBV) vaccine has been proven to be highly protective. However, its immunogenicity may be ineffective among HIV-infected children. In Morocco, HBV vaccine was introduced in 1999, and since then all infants, including ver...