Role of bacterial capsule in local and systemic inflammatory responses of mice during pulmonary infection with Klebsiella pneumoniae

Journal of Medical Microbiology

Volumn 49, Issue 11, 2000, Pages 1003-1010

  Yoshida, K ^a   Matsumoto, T ^a   Tateda, K ^a   Uchida, K ^a   Tsujimoto, S ^a   Yamaguchi, K ^a  

^a TOHO UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

INTERLEUKIN 6; TUMOR NECROSIS FACTOR ALPHA;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BACTEREMIA; BACTERIAL COUNT; BACTERIAL GROWTH; BACTERIAL MEMBRANE; BACTERIAL PNEUMONIA; CYTOKINE RELEASE; DEATH; EXPERIMENTAL INFECTION; IMMUNE RESPONSE; INFLAMMATION; KLEBSIELLA PNEUMONIAE; LUNG LAVAGE; MALE; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEPTICEMIA; SURVIVAL;

EID: 0033759969     PISSN: 00222615     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1099/0022-1317-49-11-1003     Document Type: Article

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