Scanty congenital plasmodium parasites as a possible cause for several autoimmune diseases

Medical Hypotheses

Volumn 56, Issue 3, 2001, Pages 335-338

  Yaffe, I ^a  

^a NONE   (Israel)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIBODY PRODUCTION; ARTICLE; AUTOIMMUNE DISEASE; BLOOD TRANSFUSION; MALARIA; PARASITE TRANSMISSION; PARASITISM; PLASMODIUM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SYSTEMIC LUPUS ERYTHEMATOSUS;

PLASMODIUM PARASITES;

EID: 0035038694     PISSN: 03069877     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1054/mehy.2000.1151     Document Type: Article

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