Where do you give hepatitis B vaccine?
Where do you give hepatitis B vaccine? Hepatitis B vaccine should be administered by intramuscular injection. Injection into the buttock is associated with decreased immunogenicity (15--18). How do you give Hep B vaccine? The hepatitis B vaccine is made by taking the part of the virus that makes surface protein ("surface protein gene") and putting it into yeast cells. The yeast cells then produce many copies of the protein that are subsequently used to make the vaccine. When is the Hep B vaccine administered? Kids usually get the hepatitis B vaccine (HepB) as a series of 3 shots: shortly after...