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Challenges for vaccination in the elderly
The increased susceptibility of the elderly to infection presents a major challenge to public health services. An aging immune system is well documented as the cause of increased infection rates in elderly people. Such immunosenescence is multi-factorial and incompletely understood. Immunosenescent...
Autores principales: | Aspinall, Richard, Del Giudice, Giuseppe, Effros, Rita B, Grubeck-Loebenstein, Beatrix, Sambhara, Suryaprakash |
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Formato: | Texto |
Lenguaje: | English |
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BioMed Central
2007
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2235886/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/18072962 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1742-4933-4-9 |
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