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Is Infant Immunity Actively Suppressed or Immature?

Almost 7 million children under the age 5 die each year, and most of these deaths are attributable to vaccine-preventable infections. Young infants respond poorly to infections and vaccines. In particular, dendritic cells secrete less IL-12 and IL-18, CD8(pos) T cells and NK cells have defective cyt...

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Autores principales: Gervassi, Ana L, Horton, Helen
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Libertas Academica 2014
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4241502/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25429207
http://dx.doi.org/10.4137/VRT.S12248