Interleukin-8 - An early marker for bacterial infection

Laboratory Medicine

Volumn 31, Issue 1, 2000, Pages 39-44

  Hirao, Yoshio ^a   Kanda, Tsugiyasu ^b   Aso, Yoshimasa ^c   Mitsuhashi, Masato ^c   Kobayashi, Isao ^b  

^a Yamano College of Aesthetics   (Japan)

^b GUNMA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

INTERLEUKIN 8;

BACTERIAL INFECTION; CELL STIMULATION; CYTOKINE PRODUCTION; EARLY DIAGNOSIS; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; REVIEW; SEPSIS;

EID: 0033958047     PISSN: 00075027     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1309/GJ98-JAH8-VQ57-D6N0     Document Type: Review

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