ZOONOSIS IN XENOTRANSPLANTATION

Authors
PATIENCE C TAKEUCHI Y WEISS RA
Citation
C. Patience et al., ZOONOSIS IN XENOTRANSPLANTATION, Current opinion in immunology, 10(5), 1998, pp. 539-542
Citations number
39
Categorie Soggetti
Immunology
Journal title
Current opinion in immunology → ACNP
ISSN journal
09527915
Volume
10
Issue
5
Year of publication
1998
Pages
539 - 542
Database
ISI
SICI code
0952-7915(1998)10:5<539:ZIX>2.0.ZU;2-P
Abstract
Species barriers against microbial infection will be lowered to an unp recedented degree in xenotransplantation settings. Our knowledge about micro-organisms in donor animals is limited and it is difficult to pr edict the consequence of such cross-species infection.