Elderly subjects do not show impaired pneumococcal capsular polysaccharide serotype-specific antibody responses as assessed by a multiplexed bead assay

Clinical Immunology

Volumn 135, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 501-502

  Borgers, H ^a   Jeurissen, A ^a   Flamaing, J ^b   Peetermans, W E ^b   Moens, L ^a   Verhaegen, J ^b   Bossuyt, X ^a,b  

^a Laboratory Medicine   (Belgium)

^b UNIVERSITY HOSPITALS LEUVEN   (Belgium)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIUM ANTIBODY; PNEUMOCOCCUS VACCINE;

ADULT; AGE; AGED; ANTIBODY BLOOD LEVEL; ANTIBODY RESPONSE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELDERLY CARE; HUMAN; LETTER; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; PNEUMOCOCCAL INFECTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEROTYPE; STREPTOCOCCUS PNEUMONIAE; VACCINATION;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ANTIBODIES, BACTERIAL; ANTIGENS, BACTERIAL; BACTERIAL CAPSULES; HUMANS; IMMUNOMAGNETIC SEPARATION; MIDDLE AGED; PNEUMOCOCCAL INFECTIONS; PNEUMOCOCCAL VACCINES; POLYSACCHARIDES, BACTERIAL; REAGENT KITS, DIAGNOSTIC;

EID: 77951878886     PISSN: 15216616     EISSN: 15217035     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.clim.2010.01.017     Document Type: Letter

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