Immune response capacity after human splenic autotransplantation - Restoration of response to individual pneumococcal vaccine subtypes


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Output typeJournal article

Author listLeemans R, Manson W, Snijder JAM, Smit JW, Klasen HJ, The TH, Timens W

PublisherLippincott, Williams & Wilkins

Publication year1999

JournalAnnals of Surgery (0003-4932)

Volume number229

Issue number2

Start page279

End page285

Number of pages7

ISSN0003-4932

eISSN1528-1140

LanguagesEnglish-Great Britain (EN-GB)


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Full text URLhttps://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1191642


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Conclusions Considering this significant antipneumococcal antibody increase, spleen autotransplants can be expected to permit an adequate humoral response to pneumococcal infections and presumably also to other TI-2 antigens, and to protect against overwhelming postsplenectomy infection or sepsis.


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