Varicella vaccine in children requiring renal or hepatic transplantation

Transplantation

Volumn 60, Issue 9, 1995, Pages 1055-1056

  Giacchino, R ^a   Marcellini, M ^b   Timitilli, A ^a   Innocenti, L Degli ^a   Losurdo, G ^a   Palumbo, M ^b   Sartorelli, M ^b   Comparcola, D ^b   Mauro, L M ^b   Gusmano, R ^a  

^a G GASLINI INSTITUTE   (Italy)

^b BAMBINO GESÙ CHILDREN S HOSPITAL   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHICKENPOX VACCINE;

ADOLESCENT; ARTICLE; CHILD; DISEASE SEVERITY; ENZYME LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; FEMALE; HERPES ZOSTER; HUMAN; IMMUNE DEFICIENCY; IMMUNOSUPPRESSIVE TREATMENT; INFANT; KIDNEY TRANSPLANTATION; LIVER TRANSPLANTATION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SURGICAL MORTALITY; VACCINATION;

ADOLESCENT; ANTIBODIES, VIRAL; CHICKENPOX VACCINE; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; ENZYME-LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HERPESVIRUS 3, HUMAN; HUMAN; IMMUNOGLOBULIN G; IMMUNOGLOBULIN M; INFANT; KIDNEY TRANSPLANTATION; LIVER TRANSPLANTATION; MALE; TIME FACTORS; VACCINES, ATTENUATED; VIRAL VACCINES;

EID: 0028858612     PISSN: 00411337     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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