Natural killer cell deficiencies and severe varicella infection

Journal of Pediatrics

Volumn 148, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 563-564

  Notarangelo, Luigi D ^a   Mazzolari, Evelina ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRESCIA   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BUSULFAN; CD16 ANTIGEN; CD19 ANTIGEN; CYCLOPHOSPHAMIDE; THYMOCYTE ANTIBODY;

ANTIBODY RESPONSE; B LYMPHOCYTE; CASE REPORT; CELL PROLIFERATION; CELLULAR DISTRIBUTION; CHICKENPOX; CYTOTOXICITY; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; ENCEPHALITIS; FEMALE; HEMATOPOIETIC STEM CELL TRANSPLANTATION; HERPES VIRUS INFECTION; HUMAN; IN VITRO STUDY; LABORATORY TEST; LETTER; LEUKOCYTE COUNT; LEUKOPENIA; LYMPHOCYTOPENIA; MACROPHAGE ACTIVATION; MULTIPLE ORGAN FAILURE; NATURAL KILLER T CELL; PATIENT REFERRAL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCHOOL CHILD; CHILD; HERPES ZOSTER ENCEPHALITIS; IMMUNOLOGY; NATURAL KILLER CELL; NOTE; VIROLOGY;

B-LYMPHOCYTES; CHILD; ENCEPHALITIS, VARICELLA ZOSTER; FEMALE; HEMATOPOIETIC STEM CELL TRANSPLANTATION; HUMANS; KILLER CELLS, NATURAL; LYMPHOPENIA;

EID: 33646110283     PISSN: 00223476     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jpeds.2005.06.028     Document Type: Letter

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