Otitis-Prone Children Produce Functional Antibodies to Pneumolysin and Pneumococcal Polysaccharides

The pneumococcus is a major otitis media (OM) pathogen, but data are conflicting regarding whether otitis-prone children have impaired humoral immunity to pneumococcal antigens. We and others have shown that otitis-prone and healthy children have similar antibody titers to pneumococcal proteins and...

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Autores principales: Kirkham, Lea-Ann S., Wiertsema, Selma P., Corscadden, Karli J., Mateus, Tulia, Mullaney, Gemma L., Zhang, Guicheng, Richmond, Peter C., Thornton, Ruth B.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: American Society for Microbiology 2017
Materias:
Clinical Immunology
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5339643/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28031178
http://dx.doi.org/10.1128/CVI.00497-16

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https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5339643/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28031178
http://dx.doi.org/10.1128/CVI.00497-16

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