Sex Bias in Infectious Disease Epidemiology: Patterns and Processes

BACKGROUND: Infectious disease incidence is often male-biased. Two main hypotheses have been proposed to explain this observation. The physiological hypothesis (PH) emphasizes differences in sex hormones and genetic architecture, while the behavioral hypothesis (BH) stresses gender-related differenc...

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Autores principales: Guerra-Silveira, Felipe, Abad-Franch, Fernando
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Public Library of Science 2013
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Research Article
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3634762/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23638062
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0062390

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https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3634762/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23638062
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0062390

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