Immune response capacity after human splenic autotransplantation: Restoration of response to individual pneumococcal vaccine subtypes

Annals of Surgery

Volumn 229, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 279-285

  Leemans, Rob ^a,d   Manson, Willem ^a,b   Snijder, Jan A M ^a   Smit, Jan W ^a   Klasen, Henk J ^a   The, T Hauw ^a   Timens, Wim ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GRONINGEN   (Netherlands)

^b Public Health Service of Groningen   (Netherlands)

^c UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER GRONINGEN   (Netherlands)

^d MEDICAL CENTER LEEUWARDEN   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

IMMUNOGLOBULIN G; IMMUNOGLOBULIN M; PNEUMOCOCCUS VACCINE;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; AUTOTRANSPLANTATION; CLINICAL ARTICLE; HUMAN; IMMUNE RESPONSE; INFECTION RISK; MALE; PHAGOCYTOSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPLEEN TRANSPLANTATION; SPLENECTOMY; VACCINATION;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ANTIBODIES, BACTERIAL; BACTERIAL VACCINES; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PNEUMOCOCCAL VACCINES; SPLEEN; SPLENECTOMY; STREPTOCOCCUS PNEUMONIAE;

EID: 0033504319     PISSN: 00034932     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00000658-199902000-00017     Document Type: Article

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