Studies of group B streptococcal infection in mice deficient in complement component C3 or C4 demonstrate an essential role for complement in both innate and acquired immunity

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 92, Issue 25, 1995, Pages 11490-11494

  Wessels, Michael R ^a,b   Butko, Peter ^a   Ma, Minghe ^c   Warren, Henry B ^c   Lage, Arthur L ^c   Carroll, Michael C ^c  

^a BRIGHAM AND WOMEN S HOSPITAL   (United States)

^b BETH ISRAEL DEACONESS MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^c HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPLEMENT COMPONENT C3; COMPLEMENT COMPONENT C4;

ADOLESCENT; ANTIBODY DEPENDENT CELLULAR CYTOTOXICITY; ARTICLE; COMPLEMENT DEFICIENCY; COMPLEMENT SYSTEM; CONTROLLED STUDY; IMMUNITY; MOUSE; NEWBORN; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STREPTOCOCCUS AGALACTIAE; STREPTOCOCCUS INFECTION;

ANIMALS; ANIMALS, NEWBORN; ANTIBODIES, BACTERIAL; COMPLEMENT C3; COMPLEMENT C4; DISEASE SUSCEPTIBILITY; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMMUNITY; IMMUNITY, ACTIVE; IMMUNITY, MATERNALLY-ACQUIRED; IMMUNITY, NATURAL; LEUKOCYTES; MICE; OPSONIN PROTEINS; PHAGOCYTOSIS; PREGNANCY; STREPTOCOCCAL INFECTIONS; STREPTOCOCCUS AGALACTIAE;

STREPTOCOCCUS; STREPTOCOCCUS AGALACTIAE; STREPTOCOCCUS SP. 'GROUP B';

EID: 0029558338     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.92.25.11490     Document Type: Article

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