Impaired Cellular Immunity in Kwashiorkor with Improvement after Therapy
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Impaired cellular immunity in kwashiorkor with improvement after therapy.
Children with kwashiorkor showed a high incidence of deranged cellular immunity as evidenced by impairment of delayed cutaneous hypersensitivity reactions to candida and diphtheria toxoid antigens and of lymphocyte transformation after phytohaemagglutinin stimulation. This may contribute to their susceptibility to infection. A correlation was shown between the degree of impairment of tests of c...
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عنوان ژورنال: BMJ
سال: 1971
ISSN: 0959-8138,1468-5833
DOI: 10.1136/bmj.4.5786.527