Human C-reactive protein is protective against fatal Salmonella enterica serovar Typhimurium infection in transgenic mice

Infection and Immunity

Volumn 68, Issue 10, 2000, Pages 5652-5656

  Szalai, A J ^a   VanCott, J L ^a   McGhee, J R ^a   Volanakis, J E ^a   Benjamin W H , Jr ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA AT BIRMINGHAM   (United States)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

C REACTIVE PROTEIN; IMMUNOGLOBULIN G ANTIBODY;

ACUTE PHASE RESPONSE; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL VIRULENCE; CONTROLLED STUDY; GRAM NEGATIVE BACTERIUM; HOST RESISTANCE; HUMORAL IMMUNITY; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SALMONELLA ENTERICA; SALMONELLOSIS; STRAIN DIFFERENCE; SURVIVAL RATE; TRANSGENIC MOUSE;

ANIMAL; ANTIBODIES, BACTERIAL; BACTEREMIA; C-REACTIVE PROTEIN; HUMAN; LIVER; MALE; MICE; MICE, INBRED C57BL; MICE, INBRED DBA; MICE, TRANSGENIC; SALMONELLA INFECTIONS, ANIMAL; SALMONELLA TYPHIMURIUM; SPLEEN; SUPPORT, U.S. GOV'T, P.H.S.; TRANSGENES;

EID: 0033801306     PISSN: 00199567     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/IAI.68.10.5652-5656.2000     Document Type: Article

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