Lesions of primary and secondary syphilis contain activated cytolytic T cells

Infection and Immunity

Volumn 64, Issue 3, 1996, Pages 1048-1050

  Van Voorhis, Wesley C ^a   Barrett, Lynn K ^a   Nasio, James M ^b   Plummer, Francis A ^c   Lukehart, Sheila A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NAIROBI   (Kenya)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MANITOBA   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CD8 ANTIGEN; MESSENGER RNA; PERFORIN;

ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYTOTOXIC T LYMPHOCYTE; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SECONDARY SYPHILIS; SYPHILIS; T LYMPHOCYTE ACTIVATION; T LYMPHOCYTE SUBPOPULATION; TREPONEMA PALLIDUM;

EID: 0030043397     PISSN: 00199567     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/iai.64.3.1048-1050.1996     Document Type: Article

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