Primary human immune response to Neisseria meningitidis serogroup C in interleukin-12-treated severe combined immunodeficient mice engrafted with human peripheral blood lymphocytes

Journal of Infectious Diseases

Volumn 175, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 84-90

  Westerink, M A Julie ^a   Metzger, Dennis W ^b   Hutchins, Wendy A ^b   Adkins, Angela R ^b   Holder, Patricia F ^b   Pais, Lorna B ^b   Gheesling, Linda L ^b   Carlone, George M ^b  

^a MEDICAL COLLEGE OF OHIO   (United States)

^b NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

INTERLEUKIN 12;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANTIBODY RESPONSE; ANTIBODY SPECIFICITY; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL INFECTION; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; CROSS REACTION; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; IMMUNE RESPONSE; LYMPHOID CELL; MOUSE; NEISSERIA MENINGITIDIS; NONHUMAN; PERIPHERAL LYMPHOCYTE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCID MOUSE; SEROCONVERSION;

EID: 0031031436     PISSN: 00221899     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/infdis/175.1.84     Document Type: Article

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