Elderly humans show prolonged in vivo inflammatory activity during pneumococcal infections

Journal of Infectious Diseases

Volumn 180, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 551-554

  Bruunsgaard, Helle ^a,b   Skinhøj, Peter ^a   Qvist, Jesper ^a   Pedersen, Bente Klarlund ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

^b Rigshospitalet   (Denmark)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CYTOKINE; INTERLEUKIN 1 RECEPTOR BLOCKING AGENT; INTERLEUKIN 10; INTERLEUKIN 1BETA; INTERLEUKIN 6; MACROPHAGE INFLAMMATORY PROTEIN 1BETA; TUMOR NECROSIS FACTOR; TUMOR NECROSIS FACTOR ALPHA;

ADULT; AGED; AGING; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYTOKINE PRODUCTION; FEMALE; HUMAN; IMMUNE RESPONSE; INFECTION CONTROL; INFLAMMATION; MALE; NEGATIVE FEEDBACK; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STREPTOCOCCUS INFECTION;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; AGING; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; CYTOKINES; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MATCHED-PAIR ANALYSIS; MENINGITIS, PNEUMOCOCCAL; MIDDLE AGED; PNEUMOCOCCAL INFECTIONS; PNEUMONIA, PNEUMOCOCCAL; STREPTOCOCCUS PNEUMONIAE;

EID: 0033502284     PISSN: 00221899     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/314873     Document Type: Article

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