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UNSPECIFIED (1998) Current status of HBV vaccine escape variants - a mathematical model of their epidemiology. JOURNAL OF VIRAL HEPATITIS, 5 (Suppl. 2). pp. 25-30. ISSN 1352-0504
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We present a deterministic model of the possible emergence of a vaccine escape variant of hepatitis B virus (HBV). The model identifies the key unknowns determining this process: the protection afforded by she current vaccines against particular HBV variants; the infectiousness of these variants; and the current prevalence of individuals infectious with the variants (each factor relative to wild-type). By malting pessimistic assumptions about these unknowns we show that even a highly infectious variant, under a vaccine programme that affords no protection against the variant, would still take decades to emerge. Thus the current low prevalence of variants is not evidence for the cross-reactivity of the current vaccines or for a lack of infectiousness in the variants. As any vaccine failure will be inapparent for decades it may be sensible to recommend vaccine modifications now rather than later.
| Item Type: | Journal Article |
|---|---|
| Subjects: | R Medicine > RC Internal medicine Q Science > QR Microbiology > QR355 Virology |
| Journal or Publication Title: | JOURNAL OF VIRAL HEPATITIS |
| Publisher: | BLACKWELL SCIENCE LTD |
| ISSN: | 1352-0504 |
| Date: | November 1998 |
| Volume: | 5 |
| Number: | Suppl. 2 |
| Number of Pages: | 6 |
| Page Range: | pp. 25-30 |
| Publication Status: | Published |
| URI: | http://wrap.warwick.ac.uk/id/eprint/15139 |
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