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Bacterial adherence to mucosal epithelium in the upper airways has less significance than believed

BACKGROUND: Bacterial adherence to the upper airway epithelium is considered to be an important phenomenon in the pathogenesis of infections. However, the evidence for the hypothesis that bacterial adherence to mucosal epithelial cells has significance for pathogenesis of mucosal infections is based...

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Autor principal: Ebenfelt, Anders
Formato: Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2003
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC166137/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/12807533
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1477-5751-2-3