The controversial impact of B cells subsets on immune response to pneumococcal vaccine in HIV-1 patients

Background: Chronic HIV infection leads to severe perturbations of the B cell populations and hypo-responsiveness to vaccines. The associations between circulating B cell subpopulations and the antibody response to pneumococcal polysaccharide vaccine in antiretroviral-naïve and treated patients were...

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Main Authors: Olga Tsachouridou, Lemonia Skoura, Pantelis Zebekakis, Apostolia Margariti, Adamantini Georgiou, Michael Daniilidis, Nikolaos Malisiovas, Symeon Metallidis
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Elsevier 2015-09-01
Series:International Journal of Infectious Diseases
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Online Access:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1201971215001757