SeXX Matters in Infectious Disease Pathogenesis

PLoS Pathogens

Volumn 12, Issue 2, 2016, Pages

  vom Steeg, Landon G ^a   Klein, Sabra L ^a  

^a JOHNS HOPKINS BLOOMBERG SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ESTRADIOL; MICRORNA; PATTERN RECOGNITION RECEPTOR; SEX HORMONE; TESTOSTERONE;

AMEBIASIS; ANATOMICAL CONCEPTS; ANTIBODY RESPONSE; CANDIDA ALBICANS; CELLULAR IMMUNITY; CRYPTOCOCCOSIS; EPITHELIUM; FATALITY; GENDER BIAS; GENE; GENE EXPRESSION; GENITAL SYSTEM; HEPATITIS B; HUMAN; IMMUNE RESPONSE; INFECTION; INFECTION SENSITIVITY; INFLUENZA; INFLUENZA A (H1N1); INFLUENZA A VIRUS (H1N1); INFLUENZA A VIRUS (H7N9); INNATE IMMUNITY; NONHUMAN; REVIEW; SEX DIFFERENCE; TAENIASIS; VIRUS LOAD; X CHROMOSOME LINKAGE; COMMUNICABLE DISEASES; DISEASE PREDISPOSITION; FEMALE; GENETICS; IMMUNOLOGY; MALE; SEX CHROMOSOME; SEXUAL DEVELOPMENT; VIRULENCE;

COMMUNICABLE DISEASES; DISEASE SUSCEPTIBILITY; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMMUNITY, INNATE; MALE; SEX CHARACTERISTICS; SEX CHROMOSOMES; SEX FACTORS; VIRULENCE;

EID: 84959552937     PISSN: 15537366     EISSN: 15537374     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.ppat.1005374     Document Type: Review

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