Microbiology: A Systems Approach
Microbiology: A Systems Approach
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ISBN: 9781259706615
Author: Marjorie Kelly Cowan Professor
Publisher: McGraw-Hill Education
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Grafting is the process of transferring of tissues and organs from one body part to other within the same organism or in between immunologically related person. A rejection of grafted tissue is seen in distantly related individuals, as the body recognizes it as a foreign body due to dissimilarity in the surface proteins of the recipient and the donor.

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