Anti-protein immunoglobulin M responses to pneumococcus are not associated with aging

BACKGROUND: The incidence of community-acquired pneumonia and lower respiratory tract infection rises considerably in later life. Immunoglobulin M (IgM) antibody levels to pneumococcal capsular polysaccharide are known to decrease with age; however, whether levels of IgM antibody to pneumococcal pro...

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Autores principales: German, Esther L., Al-Hakim, Bahij, Mitsi, Elena, Pennington, Shaun H., Gritzfeld, Jenna F., Hyder-Wright, Angie D., Banyard, Antonia, Gordon, Stephen B., Collins, Andrea M., Ferreira, Daniela M.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2018
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5987460/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29992080
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s41479-018-0048-3

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