Serum concentrations of antibodies against vaccine toxoids in children exposed perinatally to immunotoxicants

Environmental Health Perspectives

Volumn 118, Issue 10, 2010, Pages 1434-1438

  Heilmann, Carsten ^a   Budtz Jørgensen, Esben ^b   Nielsen, Flemming ^c   Heinzow, Birger ^d   Weihe, Pál ^c,e   Grandjean, Philippe ^c,f  

^a Rigshospitalet   (Denmark)

^b UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

^c UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN DENMARK   (Denmark)

^d State Social Services Agency   (Germany)

^e Department of Occupational Medicine and Public Health ^*  (Faroe Islands)

^f HARVARD SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

Author keywords

Developmental toxicity; Environmental exposure; Immunotoxicity; Methylmercury; Polychlorinated biphenyls

Indexed keywords

DIPHTHERIA ANTIBODY; DIPHTHERIA TOXOID; MERCURY; PERTUSSIS VACCINE; POLIOMYELITIS VACCINE; POLYCHLORINATED BIPHENYL; TETANUS ANTIBODY; TETANUS TOXOID;

AGE; ANTIBODY BLOOD LEVEL; ANTIBODY SPECIFICITY; ARTICLE; BLOOD LEVEL; CHILD; DIPHTHERIA; EXPOSURE; HUMAN; IMMUNOTOXICITY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MILK; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TETANUS; VACCINATION;

ADULT; ANTIBODIES; CHILD; COHORT STUDIES; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMMUNE SYSTEM; POLYCHLORINATED BIPHENYLS; PREGNANCY; PRENATAL EXPOSURE DELAYED EFFECTS; VACCINES;

EID: 77956073871     PISSN: 00916765     EISSN: 15529924     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1289/ehp.1001975     Document Type: Article

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