Host cellular immune response to pneumococcal lung infection in mice

Infection and Immunity

Volumn 68, Issue 2, 2000, Pages 492-501

  Kadioglu, Aras ^a   Gingles, Neill A ^a   Grattan, Kate ^a   Kerr, Alison ^b   Mitchell, Tim J ^b   Andrew, Peter W ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEICESTER   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GLASGOW   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PNEUMOLYSIN; VIRULENCE FACTOR;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; B LYMPHOCYTE; BACTERIAL GROWTH; BACTERIUM MUTANT; BRONCHOPNEUMONIA; CELL INFILTRATION; CELLULAR IMMUNITY; INFLAMMATION; LUNG INFECTION; MOUSE; NEUTROPHIL; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEPTICEMIA; STREPTOCOCCUS INFECTION; STREPTOCOCCUS PNEUMONIAE; T LYMPHOCYTE;

ANIMALS; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; FEMALE; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; LEUKOCYTE COUNT; LUNG; MICE; NEUTROPHILS; PNEUMONIA, PNEUMOCOCCAL; STREPTOCOCCUS PNEUMONIAE; STREPTOLYSINS;

EID: 0033968726     PISSN: 00199567     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/IAI.68.2.492-501.2000     Document Type: Article

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