Mother-infant interactions and the development of immunity from conception through weaning

Psychoneuroimmunology, Two-Volume Set

Volumn 1, Issue , 2007, Pages 455-474

  Coe, Christopher L ^a   Lubach, Gabriele R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

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DOI: 10.1016/B978-012088576-3/50027-7     Document Type: Chapter

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