Sponsor: 
GlaxoSmithKline Australia
Administration route: 
Intramuscular injection
Vaccine group: 
Combination vaccines

Registered for use in children aged 1–15 years.

Hepatitis A and hepatitis B vaccine combination vaccine.

Each 0.5 mL monodose vial or pre-filled syringe contains:

  • 360 ELISA units of inactivated hepatitis A virus (HM175 strain)
  • 10 µg recombinant hepatitis B surface antigen protein
  • 0.225 mg aluminium as aluminium phosphate and aluminium hydroxide

Also contains traces of:

  • formaldehyde
  • neomycin
  • trometamol
  • polysorbate 20

May contain yeast proteins.

For full details, refer to the product information and consumer medicine information sheets for Twinrix Junior (360/10) vaccine available on the TGA website.

Related diseases: 
Hepatitis A
Hepatitis B

Page history

Last updated: 
4 June 2018
Last reviewed: 
4 June 2018

Definitions

ELISA
enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay