Fever's glass ceiling

Clinical Infectious Diseases

Volumn 22, Issue 3, 1996, Pages 525-536

  Mackowiak, Philip A ^a   Boulant, Jack A ^b  

^a BALTIMORE VA MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARGIPRESSIN; INTERMEDIN;

CORE TEMPERATURE; FEVER; HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; TEMPERATURE MEASUREMENT; THERMOREGULATION;

EID: 0029783221     PISSN: 10584838     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/clinids/22.3.525     Document Type: Review

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