Zoonosis in xenotransplantation.
Species barriers against microbial infection will be lowered to an unprecedented degree in xenotransplantation settings. Our knowledge about micro-organisms in donor animals is limited and it is difficult to predict the consequence of such cross-species infection.
Patience
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Chester Beatty Laboratories, The Institute of Cancer Research, 237 Fulham Road, London, SW3 6JB, UK. clive@icr.ac.uk
Takeuchi
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Weiss
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D000818:Animals; D020077:Endogenous Retroviruses / Q000502:physiology; D006801:Humans; D013552:Swine; D014183:Transplantation, Heterologous / Q000009:adverse effects*; D015047:Zoonoses / Q000209:etiology*