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Chapter 10 - Immune Response and Infections in the Elderly

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  13 October 2018

By
Nicole Bryan  and
Arif R. Sarwari
Edited by
Shamsuddin Akhtar  and
Stanley Rosenbaum
Shamsuddin Akhtar
Affiliation:
Yale University School of Medicine
Stanley Rosenbaum
Affiliation:
Yale University School of Medicine
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Principles of Geriatric Critical Care , pp. 138 - 146
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2018

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