Otitis-prone children produce functional antibodies to pneumolysin and pneumococcal polysaccharides

Copyright © 2017 Kirkham et al. The pneumococcus is a major otitis media (OM) pathogen, but data are conflicting regarding whether otitis-prone children have impaired humoral immunity to pneumococcal antigens. We and others have shown that otitis-prone and healthy children have similar antibody tite...

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Main Authors: Kirkham, L., Wiertsema, S., Corscadden, K., Mateus, T., Mullaney, G., Zhang, Guicheng, Richmond, P., Thornton, R.
Format: Conference Paper
Published: 2017
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/54325