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Design of Cecal Ligation and Puncture and Intranasal Infection Dual Model of Sepsis-Induced Immunosuppression
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Towards precision medicine for sepsis patients
Peter Pickkers1,2, Matthijs Kox3,4
1Department of Intensive Care Medicine, Radboud Institute for Molecular Life Sciences, Radboud University Medical Center, Internal mail 710, P.O. Box 9101, Nijmegen, 6500 HB, The Netherlands. peter.pickkers@radboudumc.nl.
Critical Care (London, England)
|January 13, 2017
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