Comparison of the local immune response to nontypable Haemophilus influenzae (nHI) and Moraxella catarrhalis (MC) during otitis media.

Adv Exp Med Biol

State University of New York at Buffalo, Department of Pediatrics, Children's Hospital of Buffalo 14222, USA.

Published: January 1996

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