Zoonosis in xenotransplantation

Current Opinion in Immunology

Volumn 10, Issue 5, 1998, Pages 539-542

  Patience, Clive ^a   Takeuchi, Yasuhiro ^a   Weiss, Robin A ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF CANCER RESEARCH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL INFECTION; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; ENDOGENOUS VIRUS; HUMAN; NONHUMAN; ORGAN DONOR; RETROVIRUS; RISK ASSESSMENT; SHORT SURVEY; VIRUS INFECTION; XENOTRANSPLANTATION; ZOONOSIS;

EID: 0031785524     PISSN: 09527915     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0952-7915(98)80220-3     Document Type: Article

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