The immunology of tonsils in children: The effect of bacterial load on the presence of B- and T-cell subsets

Laryngoscope

Volumn 98, Issue 1, 1988, Pages 93-98

  Brodsky, Linda ^a   Moore, Linda ^a   Stanievich, John F ^a   Ogra, Pearay L ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY AT BUFFALO   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

B LYMPHOCYTE SUBPOPULATION; CHILD; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; T LYMPHOCYTE SUBPOPULATION; TONSIL HYPERTROPHY; TONSILLITIS;

B-LYMPHOCYTES; BACTERIA; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; HUMAN; HYPERTROPHY; ORGAN WEIGHT; RECURRENCE; SUPPORT, U.S. GOV'T, P.H.S.; T-LYMPHOCYTES; TONSIL; TONSILLITIS;

EID: 0023854908     PISSN: 0023852X     EISSN: 15314995     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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