Mycoplasma infections of the human respirator tract

Wiener Klinische Wochenschrift

Volumn 109, Issue 14-15, 1997, Pages 574-577

  Jacobs, Enno ^a  

^a DRESDEN UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Germany)

Author keywords

epidemiology; Mycoplasma pneumoniae; pathomechanism; pneumonia; virulence factors

Indexed keywords

ADAPTATION; CONFERENCE PAPER; HUMAN; MYCOPLASMA PNEUMONIAE; PATHOGENESIS; PNEUMONIA; RESPIRATORY TRACT INFECTION; SYMPTOM;

ADULT; ANTIBODIES, BACTERIAL; ANTIGENS, BACTERIAL; AUTOANTIBODIES; CHILD; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMMUNE TOLERANCE; IMMUNITY, CELLULAR; MALE; MYCOPLASMA PNEUMONIAE; PNEUMONIA, MYCOPLASMA; VIRULENCE;

EID: 0030794654     PISSN: 00435325     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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9. Jacobs E, Stuhlert A, Drews M (1988) Hst reactions to Mycoplasma pneumoniae infections in guinea pigs preimmunized systematically with the adhesin of this pathogen. Microb Pathog 5: 259-265
10. Pietsch K, Ehlers S, Jacobs E (1994) Cytokine gene expression in the lungs of BALB/c mice during primary and secondary intranasal infection with Mycoplasma pneumoniae. Microbiol 140: 2043-2048
11. Opitz O, Pietsch K, Ehlers S, Jacobs E (1996) Cytokine gene expression in immune mice reinfected with Mycoplasma pneumoniae: the role of T-cell-subsets in aggravating the inflammatory response. Immunobiol 196: 575-587
12. Jacobs E, Bartl A, Oberle K, Schiltz E (1995) Molecular mimicry by Mycoplasma pneumoniae to evade the induction of adherence inhibiting antibodies. J Med Microbiol 43: 422-429