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Is fever beneficial?

Fever, the regulation of body temperature at an elevated level, is a common response to infection throughout the vertebrates, as well as in many species of invertebrate animals. It is probable that fever evolved as an adaptive response to infection hundreds of millions of years ago. Many components...

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Autor principal: Kluger, M. J.
Formato: Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Yale Journal of Biology and Medicine 1986
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2590120/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/3488621