Developmental immunology and vaccines: immune responses to vaccines in premature infants.
A comparatively small number of studies have assessed the safety, immunogenicity, efficacy and duration of immune responses in preterm infants compared with term infants for routinely recommended childhood immunizations.
Department of Paediatrics, University of Adelaide, Womens and Childrens Hospital, North Adelaide, South Australia. don.roberton@adelaide.edu.au
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