Soluble antigens from group B streptococci induce cytokine production in human blood cultures

Infection and Immunity

Volumn 65, Issue 10, 1997, Pages 4017-4021

  Von Hunolstein, Christina ^a   Totolian, Areg ^b   Alfarone, Giovanna ^a   Mancuso, Giuseppe ^c   Cusumano, Vitaliano ^c   Teti, Giuseppe ^c,d   Orefici, Graziella ^a  

^a ISTITUTO SUPERIORE DI SANITÀ   (Italy)

^b PAVLOV FIRST SAINT PETERSBURG STATE MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Russian Federation)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MESSINA   (Italy)

^d Istituto di Microbiologia   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL ANTIGEN; CYTOKINE; INTERLEUKIN 1BETA; INTERLEUKIN 6; LIPOTEICHOIC ACID; POLYSACCHARIDE; TUMOR NECROSIS FACTOR ALPHA;

ARTICLE; BLOOD CULTURE; DOSE TIME EFFECT RELATION; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; LEUKOCYTE CULTURE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEPSIS; STREPTOCOCCUS AGALACTIAE; STREPTOCOCCUS INFECTION;

EID: 0030821178     PISSN: 00199567     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/iai.65.10.4017-4021.1997     Document Type: Article

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