Abstract Background There is a decrease in vaccine-specific antibody to certain vaccine-preventable diseases in children after chemotherapy, but the frequency of non-immune patients is not clear. In the present case-control study, was taken under investigation protection level to Hepatitis B infection in children 6 months after completing chemotherapy. Materials and Methods In this study 6...

Immune checkpoint inhibitors can lead to the development of organ and non-organ specific immune related adverse events.

AIM to describe non-spesific and specific immune response profile in Indonesian thalassemia major with and without splenectomy. METHODS this study was held at Thalassaemia Centre, Cipto Mangunkusumo Hospital Jakarta on September 2013-February 2014. A comparative cross sectional study was conducted in healthy, thalassemia major aged more than 12 year and seronegative HIV. They were matched in ...