Local immune responses to Chlamydia pneumoniae in the lungs of BALB/c mice during primary infection and reinfection

Infection and Immunity

Volumn 66, Issue 11, 1998, Pages 5113-5118

  Penttilä, Jenni M ^a   Anttila, Marjukka ^b   Puolakkainen, Mirja ^c   Laurila, Aino ^a,e   Varkila, Kari ^d   Sarvas, Matti ^a   Mäkelä, P Helena ^a   Rautonen, Nina ^a  

^a NATIONAL PUBLIC HEALTH INSTITUTE   (Finland)

^b NATL VET AND FOOD RES INSTITUTE   (Finland)

^c UNIVERSITY OF HELSINKI   (Finland)

^d ORION CORPORATION   (Finland)

^e UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA SAN DIEGO   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CELLULAR IMMUNITY; CHLAMYDIASIS; CHLAMYDOPHILA PNEUMONIAE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HELPER CELL; LUNG INFECTION; LYMPHOID TISSUE; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PRIMARY INFECTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REINFECTION;

EID: 0032413148     PISSN: 00199567     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/iai.66.11.5113-5118.1998     Document Type: Article

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