Fever as nature's engine: Part of beneficial host response?

BMJ (Online)

Volumn 340, Issue 7740, 2010, Pages 230-

  Dixon, Garth ^a   Booth, Clare ^a   Price, Elizabeth ^b   Westran, Roger ^b   Turner, Malcolm ^a   Klein, Nigel ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b BARTS HEALTH NHS TRUST   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIPYRETIC AGENT; PEPTONE; CASEIN; PEPTIDE FRAGMENT; PROTEOSE-PEPTONE; PROTEOSEPEPTONE;

BACTERIAL GROWTH; BACTERIAL INFECTION; BODY TEMPERATURE; FEVER; HUMAN; IMMUNE RESPONSE; INOCULATION; LETTER; MENINGOCOCCOSIS; NEISSERIA MENINGITIDIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; HEAT; HOST PATHOGEN INTERACTION; MICROBIOLOGY; NOTE;

CASEINS; FEVER; HOST-PATHOGEN INTERACTIONS; HOT TEMPERATURE; HUMANS; MENINGOCOCCAL INFECTIONS; NEISSERIA MENINGITIDIS; PEPTIDE FRAGMENTS;

EID: 77449157188     PISSN: None     EISSN: 17561833     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/bmj.c450     Document Type: Letter

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