title: Platelets: envoys at the infection frontline.
authors.forename: Elizabeth E
authors.initials: EE
authors.lastname: Gardiner
authors.forename: Robert K
authors.initials: RK
authors.lastname: Andrews
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D001792:Blood Platelets / Q000276:immunology*; D007113:Immunity, Innate; D008297:Male; D009000:Monocytes / Q000276:immunology*; D015539:Platelet Activation; D016097:Simian Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome / Q000473:pathology*
keywords: platelet; receptor; thrombocytopenia; thrombosis