Pertussis: Should we vaccinate post transplant? [4]

Bone Marrow Transplantation

Volumn 37, Issue 8, 2006, Pages 793-794

  Kochethu, Geothy ^a   Clark, F J ^a   Craddock, C F ^a  

^a QUEEN ELIZABETH HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CYCLOPHOSPHAMIDE; ERYTHROMYCIN; PERTUSSIS VACCINE; STEROID;

ADULT; BACTERIUM CULTURE; BORDETELLA PERTUSSIS; CASE REPORT; CHRONIC MYELOID LEUKEMIA; COUGHING; EPIDEMIC; GRAFT VERSUS HOST REACTION; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; LETTER; MALAISE; MALE; PATIENT COMPLIANCE; PERIPHERAL BLOOD STEM CELL TRANSPLANTATION; PERTUSSIS; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; WHOLE BODY RADIATION;

ADULT; BORDETELLA PERTUSSIS; HUMANS; IMMUNIZATION SCHEDULE; LEUKEMIA, MYELOID, CHRONIC; MALE; PERTUSSIS VACCINE; STEM CELL TRANSPLANTATION; TRANSPLANTATION, HOMOLOGOUS; WHOOPING COUGH;

EID: 33645707592     PISSN: 02683369     EISSN: 14765365     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/sj.bmt.1705318     Document Type: Letter

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