Serum cytokine responses during acute human granulocytic ehrlichiosis

Clinical and Diagnostic Laboratory Immunology

Volumn 7, Issue 1, 2000, Pages 6-8

  Dumler, J S ^a   Trigiani, E R ^a,b   Bakken, J S ^c   Aguero Rosenfeld, M E ^d   Wormser, G P ^d  

^a DEPARTMENT OF PATHOLOGY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c Duluth Clinic   (United States)

^d NEW YORK MEDICAL COLLEGE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CYTOKINE; GAMMA INTERFERON; INTERLEUKIN 10; INTERLEUKIN 1BETA; INTERLEUKIN 4; TUMOR NECROSIS FACTOR ALPHA;

ANAPLASMA PHAGOCYTOPHILUM; ARTICLE; CELLULAR IMMUNITY; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYTOKINE PRODUCTION; DISEASE SEVERITY; EHRLICHIOSIS; HUMAN; IMMUNE RESPONSE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN INDUCTION;

EID: 0033964215     PISSN: 1071412X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/cdli.7.1.6-8.2000     Document Type: Article

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