Cancer and immune-mediated disease in people who have had meningococcal disease: Record-linkage studies

Epidemiology and Infection

Volumn 137, Issue 5, 2009, Pages 681-687

  Goldacre, Michael J ^a   Wotton, C J ^a   Yeates, D G R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Cancer; Immune mediated disease; Meningococcal disease; Record linkage

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; AGED; ARTICLE; BREAST CANCER; CANCER RISK; CHILD; COLON CANCER; CROHN DISEASE; DIABETES MELLITUS; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; HUMAN; IMMUNOPATHOLOGY; INFANT; INFECTION SENSITIVITY; LUNG CANCER; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MENINGOCOCCOSIS; MULTIPLE MYELOMA; MYXEDEMA; PSORIASIS; RHEUMATOID ARTHRITIS; RISK REDUCTION; ULCERATIVE COLITIS; DISEASE PREDISPOSITION; FEMALE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASM; NEWBORN; PRESCHOOL CHILD; UNITED KINGDOM;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; DISEASE SUSCEPTIBILITY; ENGLAND; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMMUNE SYSTEM DISEASES; INFANT; INFANT, NEWBORN; MALE; MENINGOCOCCAL INFECTIONS; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASMS; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 65549089609     PISSN: 09502688     EISSN: 14694409     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0950268808001659     Document Type: Article

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