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Impaired immune response to vaccinia virus inoculated at the site of cutaneous allergic inflammation.

Authors: Jordan E Scott|||Abdallah ElKhal|||Eva-Jasmin Freyschmidt|||Daniel H MacArthur|||Douglas McDonald|||Michael D Howell|||Donald Y M Leung|||Amale Laouar|||N Manjunath|||Teresa Bianchi|||Marianne Boes|||Hans C Oettgen|||Raif S Geha

Journal: The Journal of allergy and clinical immunology

Publication Type: Journal Article

Date: 2007

DOI: 10.1016/j.jaci.2007.08.004

ID: 17889291

Affiliations:

Affiliations

    Department of Pediatrics, Division of Allergy and Immunology, Children's Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA.||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||

Abstract

Patients with atopic dermatitis (AD) exposed to the vaccinia virus (VV) smallpox vaccine have an increased risk of developing eczema vaccinatum.