Response to PCV13 vaccination in patients with multiple myeloma versus healthy controls

Infections are a major cause of morbidity and mortality in individuals with multiple myeloma (MM). These individuals exhibit humoral dysfunction and show a suboptimal response to pneumococcal polysaccharide vaccine (PPV23). Since pneumococcal conjugate vaccine (PCV13) elicits a T cell dependent resp...

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Main Authors: S. Shahzad Mustafa, Deep Shah, Jonathan Bress, Saad Jamshed
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Taylor & Francis Group 2019-02-01
Series:Human Vaccines & Immunotherapeutics
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Online Access:http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/21645515.2018.1534516