Can obesity be an infectious disease?;Kan fetma vara en infektionssjukdom?

Lakartidningen

Volumn 102, Issue 24-25, 2005, Pages 1896-1898

  Rössner, Stephan ^a  

^a KAROLINSKA UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Sweden)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL INFECTION; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; ENERGY BALANCE; HUMAN; OBESITY; PATHOGENESIS; SHORT SURVEY; THERMODYNAMICS; VIRUS INFECTION;

ADENOVIRUS INFECTIONS, HUMAN; ANIMALS; ANTIBODIES, VIRAL; ENERGY METABOLISM; HUMANS; INTESTINES; OBESITY; RISK FACTORS;

EID: 21344461476     PISSN: 00237205     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Short Survey

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