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- 13
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- 11-16
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Charles A. Janeway
(1992).
The immune system evolved to discriminate infectious nonself from noninfectious self.
Immunology Today
, 13
(1)
, 11-16.
https://doi.org/10.1016/0167-5699(92)90198-g
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- DOI
- 10.1016/0167-5699(92)90198-g