Host as the variable: Model hosts approach the immunological asymptote

Infection and Immunity

Volumn 73, Issue 7, 2005, Pages 3829-3832

  Casadevall, Arturo ^a  

^a ALBERT EINSTEIN COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ASPERGILLUS FLAVUS; BACTERIAL VIRULENCE; CANDIDA ALBICANS; CRYPTOCOCCUS NEOFORMANS; FUNGAL VIRULENCE; GENE DELETION; GENOMICS; HOST PATHOGEN INTERACTION; HOST RESISTANCE; HOST SUSCEPTIBILITY; IMMUNE SYSTEM; LEGIONELLA PNEUMOPHILA; MAMMAL; MOTH; NONHUMAN; NOTE; PHAGOCYTOSIS; PHYLOGENY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEOMICS; SURVIVAL;

ANIMALS; DISEASE SUSCEPTIBILITY; EVOLUTION; HUMANS; INFECTION; VIRULENCE;

EID: 21544470651     PISSN: 00199567     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/IAI.73.7.3829-3832.2005     Document Type: Note

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