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A systemic study of enhancement of host defense processes against bacterial infection
1Department of Surgery, University of Louisville School of Medicine, Kentucky 40292.
The Japanese Journal of Surgery
|November 1, 1988
Abstract:
A sequence of studies over more than two decades has identified a variety of host defense abnormalities that may contribute to clinical infection in high risk and/or badly injured patients. Clearly, animal studies set the stage for our clinical applications and suggest that a variety of so-called non-specific host defense stimulants may indeed correct many of these abnormalities and promote the ultimate control of surgical infections.