Secretory phospholipase A2 is the principal bactericide for staphylococci and other gram-positive bacteria in human tears

Infection and Immunity

Volumn 66, Issue 6, 1998, Pages 2791-2797

  Qu, Xiao Dan ^a   Lehrer, Robert I ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERICIDE; PHOSPHOLIPASE A2; ANTIINFECTIVE AGENT; DIVALENT CATION; LACTOFERRIN; LYSOZYME; PHOSPHOLIPASE A;

ANTIMICROBIAL ACTIVITY; ARTICLE; BACTERICIDAL ACTIVITY; CELL KILLING; GRAM POSITIVE BACTERIUM; HOST RESISTANCE; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; INTESTINE SECRETION; LACRIMAL FLUID; LISTERIA MONOCYTOGENES; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STAPHYLOCOCCUS; ADULT; CHEMISTRY; DRUG EFFECT; ENZYMOLOGY; EYE; FEMALE; GRAM NEGATIVE BACTERIUM; MALE; MICROBIOLOGY; SECRETION; TIME;

ADULT; ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; CATIONS, DIVALENT; EYE; FEMALE; GRAM-NEGATIVE BACTERIA; GRAM-POSITIVE BACTERIA; HUMANS; LACTOFERRIN; MALE; MURAMIDASE; PHOSPHOLIPASES A; STAPHYLOCOCCUS; TEARS; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 0031596818     PISSN: 00199567     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/iai.66.6.2791-2797.1998     Document Type: Article

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