TY - BOOK AU - Essraa Adel Aly Aly Hegazy AU - Ashraf Elsayed Abdelhamid , AU - Hala Mohamed Safouh , TI - Evaluation of immune response to hepatitis B vaccine in Egyptian children / PY - 2013/// CY - Cairo : PB - Essraa Adel Aly Aly Hegazy , KW - Egyptian children KW - Evaluation of immune response KW - Hepatitis B N1 - Thesis (M.Sc.) - Cairo University - Faculty of Medicine - Department of Microbiology and Immunology; Issued also as CD N2 - 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% UR - http://172.23.153.220/th.pdf ER -