Platelet count: Is it a possible marker for severity and outcome of community acquired pneumonia?
Background: Platelets have been increasingly recognized as an important component of innate and adaptive immunity. Platelet response in antimicrobial host defense is similar, in many ways, to the leukocyte response: both cell types contain antimicrobial peptides that act against a broad range of pat...
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Format: | Article |
Language: | English |
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Wolters Kluwer Medknow Publications
2016-04-01
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Series: | Egyptian Journal of Chest Disease and Tuberculosis |
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Online Access: | http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0422763815300807 |