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Case report on a defective antibody response against pneumococcal serotype 9V in a patient with a single episode of pneumonia

BACKGROUND: Patients with recurrent respiratory tract infections and an impaired response to pneumococcal polysaccharide vaccination are diagnosed with a specific antibody deficiency. In adult patients with pneumococcal pneumonia an impaired antibody response to the infecting pneumococcal serotype c...

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Autores principales: van Kessel, Diana, Hoffman, Thijs, van Velzen-Blad, Heleen, Meek, Bob, van Mens, Suzan, Grutters, Jan, Rijkers, Ger
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2017
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5671648/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29119074
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s41479-017-0040-3