Sustainability of humoral responses to varicella vaccine in pediatric transplant recipients following a pretransplantation immunization strategy

Pediatric Transplantation

Volumn 13, Issue 8, 2009, Pages 1007-1013

  Barton, Michelle ^a   Wasfy, Samia ^a   Melbourne, Toni ^a   Hébert, Diane ^a   Moore, Dorothy ^b   Robinson, Joan ^c   Marchese, Rocio D ^d   Allen, Upton D ^a  

^a HOSPITAL FOR SICK CHILDREN   (Canada)

^b MONTREAL CHILDREN S HOSPITAL   (Canada)

^c STOLLERY CHILDREN S HOSPITAL   (Canada)

^d MERCK RESEARCH LABORATORIES   (United States)

Author keywords

Adverse effects; Immune responses; Oka Merck vaccine; Organ transplant; Varicella

Indexed keywords

ACICLOVIR; AZATHIOPRINE; CHICKENPOX VACCINE; CYCLOSPORIN; GANCICLOVIR; MYCOPHENOLIC ACID 2 MORPHOLINOETHYL ESTER; PREDNISONE; RAPAMYCIN; TACROLIMUS; THYMOCYTE ANTIBODY;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ANTIBODY TITER; ARTHRALGIA; ARTICLE; CHICKENPOX; CHILD; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYTOMEGALOVIRUS INFECTION; DIARRHEA; DRUG ERUPTION; DRUG FEVER; DRUG SAFETY; DRUG SUBSTITUTION; ECZEMA; ERYTHEMA; FEMALE; GRAFT RECIPIENT; HISTOCOMPATIBILITY; HUMAN; HUMORAL IMMUNITY; IMMUNIZATION; IMMUNOGENICITY; IMMUNOSUPPRESSIVE TREATMENT; INFANT; IRRITABILITY; KIDNEY GRAFT; KIDNEY GRAFT REJECTION; KIDNEY TRANSPLANTATION; MALE; OTITIS MEDIA; PEDIATRIC SURGERY; PREOPERATIVE PERIOD; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PRURITUS; SCHOOL CHILD; SEIZURE; SIDE EFFECT; URINARY TRACT INFECTION;

ADOLESCENT; CHICKENPOX; CHICKENPOX VACCINE; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; ENZYME-LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; FEMALE; FLOW CYTOMETRY; HUMANS; IMMUNITY, HUMORAL; IMMUNOSUPPRESSION; INFANT; LYMPHOCYTE COUNT; MALE; ORGAN TRANSPLANTATION; STATISTICS, NONPARAMETRIC; TRANSPLANTATION IMMUNOLOGY;

EID: 73349116555     PISSN: 13973142     EISSN: 13993046     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1399-3046.2008.01113.x     Document Type: Article

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