Animal Defenses against Infectious Agents: Is Damage Control More Important Than Pathogen Control
Open Access
- 23 December 2008
- journal article
- primer
- Published by Public Library of Science (PLoS) in PLoS Biology
- Vol. 6 (12) , e1000004
- https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pbio.1000004
Abstract
The ability of hosts to withstand a given number of pathogens is a critical component of health. Now playing catch-up with plant biologists, animal biologists are starting to formally separate this form of defense from classical resistance.Keywords
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