Aerosol infection of mice with recombinant BCG secreting murine IFN-γ partially reconstitutes local protective immunity

Microbial Pathogenesis

Volumn 29, Issue 3, 2000, Pages 175-185

  Moreira, André L ^a,b   Tsenova, Liana ^a   Murray, Peter J ^c   Freeman, Sherry ^a   Bergtold, Amy ^a   Chiriboga, Luis ^b   Kaplan, Gilla ^a  

^a ROCKEFELLER UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b NEW YORK UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c ST JUDE CHILDREN S RESEARCH HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

Inducible nitric oxide synthase; Interferon gamma; Macrophages; Mycobacterium bovis BCG

Indexed keywords

BCG VACCINE; GAMMA INTERFERON; INTERLEUKIN 10; MESSENGER RNA; NITRIC OXIDE SYNTHASE;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GROWTH; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYTOKINE PRODUCTION; FEMALE; GRANULOMA; IMMUNE RESPONSE; INTERFERON PRODUCTION; LUNG INFECTION; MOUSE; MYCOBACTERIOSIS; MYCOBACTERIUM BOVIS; MYCOBACTERIUM TUBERCULOSIS; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION;

ACTINOBACTERIA (CLASS); ANIMALIA; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); MURINAE; MYCOBACTERIUM; MYCOBACTERIUM BORIS; MYCOBACTERIUM BOVIS BCG; MYCOBACTERIUM TUBERCULOSIS; UNCULTURED ACTINOMYCETE;

EID: 0033834505     PISSN: 08824010     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/mpat.2000.0382     Document Type: Article

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