Acute neutropenia decreases inflammation associated with murine vaginal candidiasis but has no effect on the course of infection

Infection and Immunity

Volumn 66, Issue 3, 1998, Pages 1273-1275

  Black, C Allen ^a   Eyers, Fiona M ^b   Russell, Adrian ^a   Dunkley, Margaret L ^b   Clancy, Robert L ^a   Beagley, Kenneth W ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEWCASTLE   (Australia)

^b Australian Inst of Mucosal Immunol   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; CANDIDA ALBICANS; DISEASE COURSE; FEMALE; HOST SUSCEPTIBILITY; INFLAMMATION; MOUSE; NEUTROPENIA; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; VAGINA CANDIDIASIS;

EID: 0031911837     PISSN: 00199567     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/iai.66.3.1273-1275.1998     Document Type: Article

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