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Pneumococcal vaccine and HIV infection: report of a vaccine failure and reappraisal of its value in clinical practice.

A clinical failure of pneumococcal vaccine is reported. A 22 year old African woman was given 23-valent pneumococcal vaccine at her initial presentation with HIV infection. She was asymptomatic and had a CD4+ lymphocyte count above 500 cells/mm3. Eighteen months later she died of meningitis and sept...

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Main Authors: Willocks, L J, Vithayathil, K, Tang, A, Noone, A
Format: Artigo
Language:Inglês
Published: 1995
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Online Access:https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1195456/
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/7744416
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