Increase of tuberculous infection in the organs of B cell-deficient mice

Clinical and Experimental Immunology

Volumn 106, Issue 2, 1996, Pages 312-316

  Vordermeier, H M ^a   Venkataprasad, N ^a   Harris, D P ^a,b   Ivanyi, J ^a  

^a HAMMERSMITH HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

^b TRUDEAU INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

antibodies; B cells; mouse infection; tuberculosis

Indexed keywords

BCG VACCINE; LYMPHOKINE;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANTIGEN PRESENTING CELL; ARTICLE; B LYMPHOCYTE; BCG VACCINATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; GRANULOMA; IMMUNE DEFICIENCY; MOUSE; MYCOBACTERIUM TUBERCULOSIS; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TUBERCULOSIS; VACCINATION;

EID: 0029831677     PISSN: 00099104     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-2249.1996.d01-845.x     Document Type: Article

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