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  • adverb By mucosal means.

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mucosal +‎ -ly

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Examples

  • Our recent results, showing that protection by mucosal antibodies might play a key role, have elicited strong interest among key opinion leaders, challenging the current dogma that blood antibodies will provide the main protection against mucosally transmitted pathogens like

    Primates in the News 2010

  • Our recent results, showing that protection by mucosal antibodies might play a key role, have elicited strong interest among key opinion leaders, challenging the current dogma that blood antibodies will provide the main protection against mucosally transmitted pathogens like

    Primates in the News 2010

  • We found that irrespective of mucosally administered viral dose, FIV infection was induced in all cats.

    BioMed Central - Latest articles Kristina Howard 2010

  • This remarkable diversity of intestinal bacteria is confined largely (99\%) to 4 phyla: Firmicutes, Bacteroidetes, Proteobacteria, and Actinobacteria, with the dominant Firmicutes (64\% of mucosally associated colonic species) primarily composed of

    Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences current issue R. B. Sartor 2008

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