Impaired production of cytokines in a case of human leishmaniasis

Clinical Infectious Diseases

Volumn 25, Issue 6, 1997, Pages 1334-1339

  Weinstock, Christof ^a   Knobloch, Juergen ^b   Schultheis, Werner ^b   Northoff, Hinnak ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TÜBINGEN   (Germany)

^b NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMPHOTERICIN B; CONCANAVALIN A; CYTOKINE; GAMMA INTERFERON; HLA DR ANTIGEN; INTERLEUKIN 10; INTERLEUKIN 2; INTERLEUKIN 4; LIPOPOLYSACCHARIDE; MEGLUMINE ANTIMONATE; PAROMOMYCIN; PENTAMIDINE; TUMOR NECROSIS FACTOR ALPHA;

ADOLESCENT; ARTICLE; BLOOD CULTURE; CASE REPORT; CONTROLLED STUDY; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; IMMUNOPHENOTYPING; LEISHMANIA TROPICA; MALE; MONOCYTE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SKIN LEISHMANIASIS; TRACHEA MUCOSA;

EID: 0031450157     PISSN: 10584838     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/516123     Document Type: Article

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