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By applying age equivalence to available information it is possible to show that the onset of immunocompetence occurs at the same stage of physiological development in all mammals and birds.
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SOLOMON, J. Unification of Foetal and Neonatal Immunology. Nature 227, 895–897 (1970). https://doi.org/10.1038/227895a0
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