%0 Journal Article %T Persistence of hepatitis B surface antibody and immune memory to hepatitis B vaccine among medical college students in Madinah %A Waleed Mahallawi %J Archive of "Annals of Saudi Medicine". %D 2018 %R 10.5144/0256-4947.2018.413 %X Globally, about 300 million people are infected with hepatitis B virus (HBV). Among the effective approaches to fight HBV infection is immunization. In 1989, an obligatory hepatitis B vaccine program was launched in Saudi Arabia %U https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6302994/