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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2011 May 7.
Published in final edited form as: Vaccine. 2010 Mar 28;28(21):3672–3678. doi: 10.1016/j.vaccine.2010.03.022

Table 2.

Detection of HBVa Antibodies and HSMBCb Following Vaccination

Infection
Status
No. of
Patients
No. with
HBV
Ab (%)
p Value No. of
Patients
No. with
HSMBC
(%)
p Value
Week 28
HIV+ 12 8 (67) 0.14 12 6 (50) 0.09
HIV− 15 14 (93) 15 13 (87)
Persistence of Responses at Week 72/76 (for those subjects who had positive HBV Ab responses at week 28)
HIV+ 8 7 (88) 1.0 7 5 (71) 0.54
HIV− 14 13 (93) 10 9 (90)
a

HBV = hepatitis B virus; Ab = Antibodies

b

HSMBC = hepatitis B specific memory B cells