Immunocompromised children: conditions and infectious agents

Paediatric Respiratory Reviews

Volumn 8, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 231-239

  Kesson, Alison M ^a   Kakakios, Alyson ^a  

^a CHILDREN S HOSPITAL AT WESTMEAD   (Australia)

Author keywords

immunodeficiency; opportunistic pathogen; respiratory infection

Indexed keywords

CORTICOSTEROID; COTRIMOXAZOLE; IMMUNOGLOBULIN M; IMMUNOSUPPRESSIVE AGENT; ITRACONAZOLE; LIVE VACCINE; MEASLES VACCINE; PHENYTOIN; PREDNISONE; VARICELLA ZOSTER VACCINE;

ASPERGILLOSIS; ASPLENIA; ATAXIA TELANGIECTASIA; CHICKENPOX; CHILD; CHRONIC GRANULOMATOUS DISEASE; COMBINED IMMUNODEFICIENCY; COMMON VARIABLE IMMUNODEFICIENCY; CYTOMEGALOVIRUS; DRUG MEGADOSE; HERPES SIMPLEX; HUMAN; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS INFECTION; HYPERIMMUNOGLOBULINEMIA E; HYPOGAMMAGLOBULINEMIA; IMMUNE DEFICIENCY; IMMUNOCOMPROMISED PATIENT; IMMUNOGLOBULIN A DEFICIENCY; IMMUNOGLOBULIN G DEFICIENCY; INFECTION RISK; INNATE IMMUNITY; LABORATORY TEST; LEUKOCYTE ADHESION DEFICIENCY; LUNG INFECTION; MEASLES; MUCOCUTANEOUS CANDIDIASIS; MYCOSIS; NOCARDIOSIS; PNEUMOCYSTIS PNEUMONIA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RESPIRATORY TRACT INFECTION; REVIEW; STRONGYLOIDIASIS; VARICELLA ZOSTER VIRUS; VELOCARDIOFACIAL SYNDROME; VIRUS DETECTION; VIRUS INFECTION; WISKOTT ALDRICH SYNDROME; X LINKED AGAMMAGLOBULINEMIA;

BACTERIA; CHILD; HUMANS; IMMUNITY, CELLULAR; IMMUNOCOMPROMISED HOST; MICROBIOLOGICAL TECHNIQUES; PROGNOSIS; RESPIRATORY TRACT INFECTIONS; VIRUSES;

EID: 34548844461     PISSN: 15260542     EISSN: 15260550     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.prrv.2007.07.005     Document Type: Review

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