Essraa Adel Aly Aly Hegazy <br/><br/>
Evaluation of immune response to hepatitis B vaccine in Egyptian children /  
 تقييم الاستجابة المناعية للقاح التهاب الكبد (ب) فى الاطفال المصريين 
Essraa Adel Aly Aly Hegazy ; Supervised Hala Mohamed Safouh , Ashraf Elsayed Abdelhamid 
 - Cairo :   Essraa Adel Aly Aly Hegazy ,   2013 
 - 173 P. ;   25cm 
<br/><br/>Thesis (M.Sc.) - Cairo University - Faculty of Medicine - Department of Microbiology and Immunology 
<br/><br/> The participants in this study were 182 children. 110 males and 72 females categorized into eight age groups from 2 - 10 years of age. Serum samples from each participant were tested for the quantitative determination of anti - HBs antibody using enzyme linked immunosorbent assay (ELISA) as well as qualitative ELISA testing for HBsAg and HBcAb. The study showed that the efficacy of hepatitis B vaccine, as evidenced by presence of protective levels of HbsAb, is 88.5% 
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<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Index Terms: </label>Egyptian children Evaluation of immune response Hepatitis B