Infectious Disease in Pregnancy and the Newborn Infant (Monographs in Clinical Pediatrics, Vol 2)
Publisher: Informa Healthcare
Published: December 27, 1991
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 632
ISBN-13: 9783718650699
Subjects: Infectious & contagious diseases; Materno-fetal medicine; Medical microbiology & virology; Neonatal medicine; in infancy & childhood; Health/Fitness; Pediatric Infectious And Parasitic Diseases; Pregnancy; Medical / Nursing; Infant, Newborn, Diseases; Gynecology & Obstetrics; Medical / Gynecology & Obstetrics; Communicable diseases in newborn infants; Communicable Diseases; Communicable diseases in newbo; Communicable diseases in pregn; Communicable diseases in pregnancy
First sentence: There are complex mechanisms by which humans and other animals (the hosts) resist invasion and damage by microorganisms (the parasites).