“Catching heart disease”: Antigenic mimicry and bacterial infections
✍ Scribed by Bachmaier, Kurt; Le, Jenny; Penninger, Josef M.
- Book ID
- 109828773
- Publisher
- Nature Publishing Group
- Year
- 2000
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 505 KB
- Volume
- 6
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 1078-8956
- DOI
- 10.1038/78561
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