Host-pathogen interactions influencing susceptibility to infective endocarditis
Introduction: Bacterial-platelet-fibrin complexes (vegetations), form on cardiac valves in infective endocarditis and are associated with increased morbidity and mortality. Although the mechanisms of bacterium-platelet adhesion, platelet activation and aggregation that are likely to contribute to ve...
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University of Edinburgh
2010
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| Online Access: | http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.735453 |