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Original Article

Dietary Fish Oil Supplementation Increases Survival in Mice Following Klebsiella pneumoniae Infection

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Pages 491-493 | Received 08 Apr 1997, Accepted 16 Jul 1997, Published online: 08 Jul 2009

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