Immune response to a recombinant hepatitis B vaccine in hemodialysis patients.

A 20-μg dose of a recombinant hepatitis B vaccine was given at 0, 1, 2 and 6 months to 24 hemodialysis patients. From month 7 (i.e., 1 month after the fourth injection), 58.3% (14/24) of the patien...