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Is fever beneficial to the host: a clinical perspective.

Fever is a phylogenetically ancient host response to infection, being found in fish and lizards, and conserved, with all its metabolic costs, in the higher mammals, including man. The conservation of the fever response in evolution is used as an argument for its survival value and, indeed, in experi...

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Autor principal: Duff, G. W.
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/PMC2590130/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/3488618