Children with frequent infections: A proposal for a stepwise assessment and investigation of the immune system: 'The immune defense to foreign invaders' Symphony. Which instrument is out of tune?

Pediatric Allergy and Immunology

Volumn 21, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 463-473

  Cassimos, Dimitrios C ^a,b   Liatsis, Manolis ^a   Stogiannidou, Anastasia ^b   Kanariou, Maria G ^a  

^a AGHIA SOPHIA CHILDREN S HOSPITAL   (Greece)

^b DEMOCRITUS UNIVERSITY OF THRACE   (Greece)

Author keywords

Algorithm; Immune system; Immunodeficiencies; Infections; Investigation

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL INFECTION; CHILD; COMPLEMENT SYSTEM; HUMAN; IMMUNE SYSTEM; IMMUNITY; IMMUNOPATHOLOGY; MYCOSIS; PHAGOCYTOSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; ALGORITHM; COMPLICATION; IMMUNOLOGIC DEFICIENCY SYNDROMES; INFECTION; RECURRENT DISEASE;

ALGORITHMS; CHILD; HUMANS; IMMUNE SYSTEM; IMMUNOLOGIC DEFICIENCY SYNDROMES; INFECTION; RECURRENCE;

EID: 77951757352     PISSN: 09056157     EISSN: 13993038     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1399-3038.2009.00964.x     Document Type: Review

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