Expanding immunology: Defensive versus ecological perspectives

Perspectives in Biology and Medicine

Volumn 51, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 270-284

  Tauber, Alfred I ^a  

^a BOSTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADAPTATION; ECOLOGY; HOST PATHOGEN INTERACTION; HOST RESISTANCE; HUMAN; IMMUNE RESPONSE; IMMUNE SYSTEM; IMMUNOLOGICAL TOLERANCE; IMMUNOLOGY; IMMUNOREGULATION; INFECTION; INFORMATION SCIENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW;

EID: 43449110933     PISSN: 00315982     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Review

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