INTERNATIONAL UROLOGY AND NEPHROLOGY, vol.44, no.5, pp.1501-1506, 2012 (Journal Indexed in SCI)
Chronic renal failure is accompanied by various abnormalities of innate and acquired, cellular and humoral immunity. We aimed to investigate whether positive Candida skin test results, CD4+ and CD8+, before the first dose of vaccination could be a predictor for antibody response to hepatitis B vaccination and the relation of these parameters with hepatitis B antibody levels 1 month after the last dose of vaccination.