Mucosa-associated lymphoid tissues as sites for uptake, carriage and excretion of tubercle bacilli and other pathogenic mycobacteria

Immunology and Cell Biology

Volumn 77, Issue 4, 1999, Pages 364-372

  Lugton, I W ^a  

^a NSW DEPARTMENT OF PRIMARY INDUSTRIES   (Australia)

Author keywords

Leprosy; Mucosa associated lymphoid tissue; Mycobacteria; Paratuberculosis; Peyer's patch; Tonsil; Tuberculosis

Indexed keywords

ANTIGEN PRESENTING CELL; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL COLONIZATION; BACTERIUM ADHERENCE; DENDRITIC CELL; ENDOCYTOSIS; EXOCYTOSIS; IMMUNE RESPONSE; LYMPHOID TISSUE; MACROPHAGE; MYCOBACTERIUM TUBERCULOSIS; NONHUMAN; PEYER PATCH; PHAGOCYTE; T LYMPHOCYTE; TONSILLITIS;

ANIMALS; BRONCHI; CONJUNCTIVA; DIGESTIVE SYSTEM; HUMANS; IMMUNITY, MUCOSAL; LARYNX; LYMPHOID TISSUE; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; MUCOUS MEMBRANE; MYCOBACTERIUM; MYCOBACTERIUM INFECTIONS; MYCOBACTERIUM TUBERCULOSIS; TONSIL; TUBERCULOSIS;

BACILLI; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); CORYNEBACTERINEAE; MYCOBACTERIUM; MYCOBACTERIUM TUBERCULOSIS;

EID: 0032813987     PISSN: 08189641     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1440-1711.1999.00836.x     Document Type: Article

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