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01.12.2014 | Meeting abstract
Immune development in late preterm neonates
verfasst von:
Gaetano Chirico
Erschienen in:
Italian Journal of Pediatrics
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Sonderheft 2/2014
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Excerpt
Several recent studies have underlined that late preterm infants have a significantly increased risk of infection and sepsis, [
1‐
3] mainly related to problems of adaptation from intra- to extra-uterine life of the immune defense mechanisms. Indeed, both the innate (natural, non specific) and the adaptive (acquired, specific) immune systems are incompletely developed at birth, the more preterm the neonate, the more severe and prolonged the immunodeficiency.[
4,
5] …