Vaccination Adjuved Against Hepatitis B in SNS Workers Typed as no Responders to Conventional Vaccines

Overview

Health workers with biological risk in their tasks, who have been vaccinated as non-responders to conventional vaccination against Hepatitis B. To provide Health workers-staff with an additional protection tool against hepatitis B infection. To evaluate the efficacy of the adjuvanted vaccine in healthy nonresponders to conventional hepatitis B vaccine.

An interventional, phase 4, single group assignment, without masking (open label), preventive clinical trial was carried out in health workers with biological risk in their tasks, who have been filed as non-responders to conventional vaccination against Hepatitis B. Methods: 67 health workers with biological risk in their tasks, who have been filed as non-responders to conventional vaccination against Hepatitis B, were enrolled in the Clinical Trial. All participants were from 18 years up to 64 years old. The criteria defining them as non-responders to the conventional hepatitis B vaccine is anti HBsAb titers \< 10 mUI/ml following the application of six doses of conventional vaccine at 20 lg doses (two complete guidelines). The objective of this study was to provide Health workersstaff with an additional protection tool against hepatitis B infection, and to evaluate the efficacy of the adjuvanted vaccine in healthy non-responders to conventional hepatitis B vaccine.

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