Apoptosis of lymphocytes in mice induced by infection with Rickettsia tsutsugamushi

Infection and Immunity

Volumn 64, Issue 9, 1996, Pages 3937-3941

  Kasuya, Shiro ^a   Nagano, Isao ^a   Ikeda, Tsuneko ^a   Goto, Chitoshi ^a   Shimokawa, Kuniyasu ^a   Takahashi, Yuzo ^a  

^a GIFU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL MODEL; APOPTOSIS; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; IMMUNOPATHOGENESIS; LYMPHOCYTE; MACROPHAGE; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; ORIENTIA TSUTSUGAMUSHI; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCRUB TYPHUS; SPLEEN CELL;

EID: 0029736683     PISSN: 00199567     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/iai.64.9.3937-3941.1996     Document Type: Article

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