Common bacterial toxins and physiological vulnerability to sudden infant death: The role of deleterious genetic mutations

FEMS Immunology and Medical Microbiology

Volumn 42, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 42-47

  Morris, J A ^a  

^a ROYAL LANCASTER INFIRMARY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Common bacterial toxin hypothesis; Deleterious mutations; Information theory; Redundancy; Sudden infant death syndrome

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL TOXIN; IMMUNOGLOBULIN G; TOBACCO SMOKE;

AGE DISTRIBUTION; BACTERIUM; BODY POSTURE; CELL MEMBRANE; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; EPIDEMIOLOGICAL DATA; EXPOSURE; GENE MUTATION; GENOME; IMMUNOGLOBULIN BLOOD LEVEL; INCIDENCE; INFECTION; MICROFLORA; MOLECULE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEASON; SHORT SURVEY; SLEEP; SUDDEN INFANT DEATH SYNDROME;

BACTERIA; BACTERIAL INFECTIONS; BACTERIAL TOXINS; GENETIC PREDISPOSITION TO DISEASE; HUMANS; INFANT; MUTATION; SUDDEN INFANT DEATH;

EID: 4344640498     PISSN: 09288244     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.femsim.2004.06.016     Document Type: Short Survey

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