IMMUNE STATUS AND BCG VACCINATION IN NEWBORNS WITH INTRAUTERINE GROWTH RETARDATION
- 1 January 1976
- journal article
- research article
- Vol. 26 (1) , 173-175
Abstract
In severe intra-uterine growth retardation there are low IgG [immunoglobulin G] levels, low numbers of B [bone marrow-derived] cells and low percentage as well as numbers of T [thymus-derived] cells in cord blood. Following BCG vaccination given soon after birth, Mantoux conversion and leukocyte migration inhibition response to BCG was defective.This publication has 11 references indexed in Scilit:
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