The number and proportion of Vγ9Vδ2 T cells rise significantly in the peripheral blood of patients after the onset of acute Coxiella burnetii infection

Clinical Infectious Diseases

Volumn 24, Issue 2, 1997, Pages 261-264

  Schneider, Thomas ^a   Jahn, Hans Ulrich ^a   Liesenfeld, Oliver ^a   Steinhoff, Dagmar ^a   Riecken, Ernst Otto ^a   Zeitz, Martin ^a   Ullrich, Reiner ^a  

^a CHARITÉ UNIVERSITÄTSMEDIZIN BERLIN   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GENE PRODUCT; HLA ANTIGEN; HLA DR ANTIGEN; LYMPHOCYTE ANTIGEN RECEPTOR;

ADULT; AGED; ANTIGEN EXPRESSION; ARTICLE; BLOOD LEVEL; CASE REPORT; COXIELLA BURNETII; DISEASE COURSE; FEMALE; HUMAN; IMMUNE RESPONSE; MALE; PERIPHERAL LYMPHOCYTE; PNEUMONIA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; Q FEVER; T LYMPHOCYTE ACTIVATION; ACUTE DISEASE; IMMUNOLOGY; T LYMPHOCYTE SUBPOPULATION;

ACUTE DISEASE; ADULT; AGED; FEMALE; HLA-DR ANTIGENS; HUMANS; MALE; Q FEVER; RECEPTORS, ANTIGEN, T-CELL, GAMMA-DELTA; T-LYMPHOCYTE SUBSETS;

EID: 0030610726     PISSN: 10584838     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/clinids/24.2.261     Document Type: Article

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