PedAM
Pediatric Disease Annotations & Medicines
| Disease | measles |
| Phenotype | C0024312|lymphopenia |
| Sentences | 2 |
| PubMedID- 22952446 | Although measles is associated with lymphopenia, depletion of lymphocytes has often been dismissed as a cause of immune suppression. |
| PubMedID- 23029357 | lymphopenia is characteristic of acute measles [5] and dysfunction of infected cells may contribute to immunologic abnormalities that include depressed delayed type hypersensitivity skin test responses [6]–[8], decreased mitogen-induced lymphoproliferation [9]–[11] and increased susceptibility to other infections [12], [13] and autoimmune disease [14]. |
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