Immunoglobulin G( ) [IgG( )] and IgG( ) Paraproteinemia in a Child with AIDS and Response to Highly Active Antiretroviral Therapy
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Filiz Odabasi Seeborg,* Hannah Gay, Lorenz M. Schmiege III, David Bernard, and William T. Shearer Section of Allergy & Immunology, Texas Children’s Hospital and Baylor College of Medicine, and Department of Pathology, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas 77030; Pediatric Infectious Disease Division, University of Mississippi Medical Center, Jackson, Mississippi 39213; and Department of Pathology, The Methodist Hospital, Houston, Texas 77030, and Weill Medical College of Cornell University, New York, New York 10021
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تاریخ انتشار 2005