Zoonosis in xenotransplantation

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Abstract

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

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