Survival during influenza-associated bacterial superinfection improves following viral- and bacterial-specific monoclonal antibody treatment
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Influenza and Bacterial Superinfection: Illuminating the Immunologic Mechanisms of Disease.
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عنوان ژورنال: JCI Insight
سال: 2019
ISSN: 2379-3708
DOI: 10.1172/jci.insight.125554