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Hepatitis-B is stili a problem in dialysis units and the number of nonresponders to hepatitis-B vaccination is relatively high in patients on regular hemodialysis treatment. The reason for low seroconversion rates in hem...

Hepatitis B infection is one of the causes of morbidity and mortality in long-term survivors of renal transplantation. Hepatitis B vaccination is recommended for HbsAg and antiHbs antibody negative end stage renal diseas...

In solid organ transplant recipients, it is recommended that the necessary vaccinations be completed at least 4 weeks before transplant. Chickenpox infection in adulthood can lead to serious clinical conditions such as p...

During influenza epidemics, the increase of the number of acute illness leads to applications to outpatient and emergency services, and it also results in increase of hospitalization for treatment of complications of low...

Hepatitis B vaccine is effective in producing protection against hepatitis B virus infection in uremic patients, but these patients respond less well than do the healthy. In this study, we vaccinated 29 hemodialysis pati...

AIM: The hepatitis B infection is a subject that still keeps its significance for hemodialysis staff members and hemodialysis patients at present. In this study, our aim was to evaluate whether the infections occurring d...

Eighteen steroid-responsive children with nephrotic syndrome were vaccinated with pneumococcal vaccine (PNEUMO-23) in order to investigate the effectiveness and necessity of this vaccine and they were followed up for thr...

OBJECTIVE: End-stage renal disease (ESRD) patients are more prone to serious influenza virus infection than healthy subjects. Selenium (Se) play an important role in cellular and humoral immunity and serum Se levels were...