Host Defense Pathways: Role of Redundancy and Compensation in Infectious Disease Phenotypes

Immunity

Volumn 34, Issue 5, 2011, Pages 629-636

  Nish, Simone ^a   Medzhitov, Ruslan ^a,b  

^a YALE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b HOWARD HUGHES MEDICAL INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIMICROBIAL ACTIVITY; HOST RESISTANCE; HUMAN; IMMUNE DEFICIENCY; INFECTION; INFECTION SENSITIVITY; INNATE IMMUNITY; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW;

ANIMALS; ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; COMMUNICABLE DISEASES; DISEASE SUSCEPTIBILITY; HUMANS; IMMUNITY, INNATE; PHENOTYPE;

EID: 79956314385     PISSN: 10747613     EISSN: 10974180     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.immuni.2011.05.009     Document Type: Review

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