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Immune status and BCG vaccination in newborns with intra-uterine growth retardation
Clinical and Experimental Immunology
|October 1, 1976
Abstract:
In severe intra-uterine growth retardation there are low IgG levels, low numbers of B cells and low percentage as well as numbers of T cells in cord blood. Following BCG vaccination given soon after birth, Mantoux conversion and leucocyte migration inhibition response to BCG was defective.