The gastrointestinal frontier: IgA and viruses

Viral gastroenteritis is one of the leading causes of diseases that kill approximately 2.2 million people world wide each year. IgA is one of the major immune effector products present in the gastrointestinal tract yet its importance in protection against gastrointestinal viral infections has been...

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Main Authors: Margaret E. Conner, Sarah E. Blutt
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Frontiers Media S.A. 2013-11-01
Series:Frontiers in Immunology
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Online Access:http://journal.frontiersin.org/Journal/10.3389/fimmu.2013.00402/full