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Genetic susceptibility to childhood infections

✍ Scribed by Mike Levin

Publisher: Elsevier Science
Year: 2000
Tongue: English
Weight: 133 KB
Volume: 94
Category: Article
ISSN: 0035-9203
DOI: 10.1016/s0035-9203(00)90419-x

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✦ Synopsis

INFECTIOUS DISEASES 11 outcome from meningococcal disease. This growing body of data suggests that host factors are important determinants of both severity and outcome of many childhood infections.

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