Pneumococcal Disease Vaccines
New pneumococcal disease vaccines findings from Heinrich-Heine University published
Published in Medicine and Law Weekly, April 6th, 2007
A new study, "Pneumococcal conjugate vaccine provides early protective antibody responses in children after related and unrelated allogeneic hematopoietic stem cell transplantation," is now available. "Following allogeneic hematopoietic stem cell transplantation (alloHSCT), children are at risk of life-threatening pneumococcal infections. Whereas vaccination with polysaccharide vaccines fails to elicit protective immunity in most alloHSC transplant recipients, pneumococcal conjugate vaccines may effectively prevent invasive disease by eliciting T-cell-dependent antibody responses," researchers in Dusseldorf, Germany report.
"Here, we report safety and immunogenicity in...
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