Sex Differences in Pediatric Infectious Diseases
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Sex Differences in Pediatric Infectious Diseases
The success of the immune response is finely balanced between, on the one hand, the need to engage vigorously with, and clear, certain pathogens; and, on the other, the requirement to minimize immunopathology and autoimmunity. Distinct immune strategies to achieve this balance have evolved in females and males and also in infancy through to adulthood. Sex differences in outcome from a range of ...
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عنوان ژورنال: Journal of Infectious Diseases
سال: 2014
ISSN: 0022-1899,1537-6613
DOI: 10.1093/infdis/jiu232