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Leukocyte phenotype and function predicts infection risk in renal transplant recipients.
Nephrology, dialysis, transplantation : official publication of the European Dialysis and Transplant Association - European Renal Association - 1 Oct 2005
Blazik Martin, Hutchinson Paul, Jose Matthew D, Polkinghorne Kevan R, Holdsworth Stephen R, Atkins Robert C, Chadban Steven J
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BACKGROUND: The degree to which transplant recipients are immunosuppressed influences their risks of rejection, infection and cancer. Current measures of immune suppression are crude (clinical events) or indirect (drug exposure). We assessed a direct measure of immune status, leukocyte phenotype and function (LPF, a composite measure of five aspects of peripheral blood leukocyte phenotype and function), as a...
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