From latent incubation launched into hostile symptomatic pathology: A probable survival strategy for common respiratory infectious agents

Medical Hypotheses

Volumn 68, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 397-400

  Mingomataj, Ervin Ç ^a   Rudzeviciene, Odilija ^b  

^a Mother Theresa School of Medicine   (Albania)

^b VILNIUS UNIVERSITY   (Lithuania)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

IMMUNOMODULATING AGENT;

ANTIBODY PRODUCTION; ARTICLE; HUMAN; IMMUNOMODULATION; INCUBATION TIME; INFLAMMATION; INNATE IMMUNITY; MICROORGANISM; NONHUMAN; PATHOGENESIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SURVIVAL; SYMPTOMATOLOGY;

ANIMALS; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; HUMANS; MICE; MICE, INBRED BALB C; RESPIRATORY TRACT INFECTIONS; SURVIVAL ANALYSIS;

EID: 33845394000     PISSN: 03069877     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.mehy.2006.06.047     Document Type: Article

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