Host-pathogen interactions: a biological rendez-vous of the infectious nonself and danger models?

PLoS Pathog

Unité interactions hôtepathogène, Département de biologie des agents transmissibles, Centre de Recherches du Service de Santé des Armées, Grenoble, France.

Published: May 2006

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