The immune response to Haemophilus ducreyi resembles a delayed-type hypersensitivity reaction throughout experimental infection of human subjects

Journal of Infectious Diseases

Volumn 178, Issue 6, 1998, Pages 1688-1697

  Palmer, Katherine L ^b   Schnizlein Bick, Carol T ^b   Orazi, Attilio ^b   John, Karla ^b   Chen, Cheng Yen ^b   Hood, Antoinette F ^b   Spinola, Stanley M ^a  

^a INDIANA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

INTERLEUKIN 8; TUMOR NECROSIS FACTOR ALPHA;

ARTICLE; CELL INFILTRATION; CLINICAL ARTICLE; DELAYED HYPERSENSITIVITY; HAEMOPHILUS DUCREYI; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; HUMAN TISSUE; IMMUNE RESPONSE; INOCULATION; LYMPHOCYTE MIGRATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ADULT; ANTIBODY FORMATION; ANTIGENS, CD; B-LYMPHOCYTES; BASE SEQUENCE; BIOPSY; CD4-POSITIVE T-LYMPHOCYTES; CD8-POSITIVE T-LYMPHOCYTES; CHANCROID; CYTOKINES; DNA PRIMERS; DNA PROBES; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; HAEMOPHILUS DUCREYI; HUMANS; HYPERSENSITIVITY, DELAYED; IMMUNITY, CELLULAR; KINETICS; MALE; RNA, MESSENGER; SKIN; T-LYMPHOCYTE SUBSETS; T-LYMPHOCYTES; TIME FACTORS; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC;

EID: 0031736376     PISSN: 00221899     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/314489     Document Type: Article

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